The Jharkhand High Court has ruled that the powers exercised by District Magistrates and Chief Judicial Magistrates under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act are strictly ministerial and do not involve any adjudicatory process. Deciding a batch of writ petitions, Justice Ananda Sen directed the state authorities to immediately clear the alarming backlog of pending
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