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Who gets to be called ‘Hon’ble’ and ‘Mr’? Allahabad High Court clarifies

The Indian Express·Bhupendra Pandey·28 days ago
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A month after taking an exception to the Uttar Pradesh Police not inserting honorifics like ‘Hon’ble’ or ‘Mr’ before the name of BJP MP Anurag Thakur in an FIR, the division bench of Allahabad High Court, in an order, has laid down who gets to be addressed this way. “Ministers of the Central and State Governments; Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts; the Speaker; the Chairman of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha , respectively; and likewise of the State Legislative Assemblies; the Members of Parliament and the State Legislative Assemblies are entitled to the use of this honorific,” the division bench of Justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena observed while hearing the matter on April 30. The order was uploaded on May 4. It observed that there could be other functionaries who, as per protocol, are entitled to the usage.…

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