‘Courts to be strict on frivolous PILs’
Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Friday advised legal community to be cautious in dealing with PILs, including those seeking intervention for purportedly unearthing corruption, and try weed out frivolous ones that eat into scarce judicial time and resources.
“Courts have to be very strict on frivolous litigations. Lawyers should also be very careful while representing such cases,” the CJI said addressing the Law Day function at the apex court lawn.
If frivolous litigation is not weeded out by legal fraternity, the CJI said, it would make good causes suffer, besides making “both judges and lawyers waste their time.”
The CJI pointed out that “in the present era of global economy and its resurgence, fierce competition is inevitable.”
This may also often lead to resorting to corruption by various competitors, he said, adding that the courts, however, should be at guard against entertaining public interest litigation which may seek judicial intervention for purportedly unearthing corruption but might actually be a ploy to frustrate some judicial order. The CJI cited how he recently came across such a PIL.
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Nath plea to include his seat rejected
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Nov. 26: As the government decided to roll out its ambitious integrated action plan (IAP) in the 60 Naxal-affected districts from December 1, surface transport minister Kamal Nath clamoured to get his constituency Chhindwara to be included in the list of districts. But his request was turned down by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the meeting of the Union Cabinet on Thursday night, where the IAP was cleared.
Revealing this sources said, “When the issue came up for discussion at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), Mr Nath insisted that Chhindwara should also be included in the list of districts where the plan is expected to be rolled out.”
But intervening in the discussion, sources said, the Prime Minister, Dr Singh, was of the view that already the government has expanded the number of Naxal-affected districts from 35 to 60 and so by increasing any further from here would dilute the very purpose of the plan.
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