Honorific entitlement for public functionaries cannot be denied on grounds of personal familiarity or grievance.

An Hon'ble Member of Parliament and other constitutional or statutory functionaries entitled to protocol are to be addressed with the applicable honorific. Omission of that honorific cannot be justified on the basis of personal familiarity or any grievance against the functionary or their family. The material therefore affirms the protocol-based entitlement to respectful address and disapproves dispensing with the honorific where the office-holder is otherwise entitled to it.

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Issues: Whether an Hon'ble Member of Parliament and other sovereign public functionaries are entitled to be addressed with the applicable honorific, and whether omission of such honorific can be justified on grounds of personal familiarity or grievance.

Analysis: The order records compliance with the earlier direction and notes that the complaint forming the basis of the check FIR had been reproduced verbatim. It then states that an Hon'ble Member of Parliament is entitled to the honorific, along with other constitutional and statutory functionaries to whom protocol extends such address. The order further holds that personal disgruntlement or familiarity with the concerned family cannot justify omission of the honorific while referring to a functionary entitled to it.

Conclusion: The entitlement to the honorific was affirmed and the omission of the honorific was disapproved.

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