The Allahabad High Court recently refused to grant relief to a couple who was booked for allegedly cheating eight men of Rs 6.4 lakh by promising them jobs in the judgeships of Aligarh and Bulandshahr and observed that the case showed their “daredevilry”, noting that contractual employment, in a sovereign establishment, was “not a matter, which can be held by someone in his pocket”. A bench of Justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena dismissed the plea challenging the FIR registered against the accused husband and wife. “If in the name of such a sovereign body, this kind of a hoax to collect money can be pulled, it not only shows the daredevilry of the petitioners, but also, as we had elsewhere remarked earlier, a pernicious tendency in society that promotes unflinching faith in the system of bribes and underhand dealings,” the court said in its order dated April 21.…