Karnataka High Court fines 72-year-old woman ₹2 lakh for frivolous habeas corpus petition
“The filing of this kind of litigation should not be encouraged by this court and the same should be deprecated.”
frivolous petition
Bombay HC dismisses PIL filed by firm ‘Crimeophobia’ to constitute Transnational Sanatan Commission; imposes Rs 10,000 cost
The prayers made in the present PIL are not only omnibus in nature but also are multiple in number, covering diverse subjects and have no factual or legal basis for it.
“A class of its own in the category of frivolous cases”: Gauhati High Court berates counsels who signed Vakalatnama for non-existent petitioner
Gauhati High Court was faced with a peculiar case where “petitioner” had followed every rule in the book to file a well-planned petition; however, in reality the petitioner did not exist!
Frivolous petitions defeating the noble object behind PILs and burdening SC and HCs; Bonafides of Litigants must be examined carefully: SC
“Although the jurisprudence of Public Interest Litigation has matured, many claims filed in the Courts are sometimes immature.”
‘You are throwing mud at all and sundry but we refuse to back off’; Supreme Court holds Suraz India Trust Chairman guilty of contempt
“Such litigants cannot be permitted to have their way only because they can plead and write anything they feel like and keep on approbating by sometimes apologising and then again bringing forth those allegations.”
Petitioner admonished for filing frivolous interlocutory application of sexual harassment by an opponent
Supreme Court: In the matter where the petitioner, who had filed a PIL pertaining to the challenge to the Animal Birth Control