Use the Term ‘TCR’ instead of ‘LCR’: Gauhati High Court

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has notified that ‘records of trial courts’ should no longer be referred to as ‘lower court records’ in the cause list. Such records, the high court said, should be mentioned as ‘trial court record (TCR).

The Registrar of the Gauhati High Court issued this order in terms of the order issued by the high court on June 25, 2025, in an interlocutory application (I.A.) (Criminal) as well as orders issued by the Supreme Court of India on February 8, 2024, and May 23, 2025.

The notification said that in all communications, documents, correspondence, etc., the registries, officers, and staff of the principal seat, the outlying benches, and all subordinate courts, as well as all judicial officers of the states of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh, shall use the term ‘trial court record (TCR) instead of ‘lower court record (LCR).

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