Supreme Court of India
Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India & Anr.
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We are of the view that the petition is an act against public interest.
Judgment, page 3
From the headnote
Contempt of Court Act, 1971: s.15-Writ Petition by way of public interest litigation-Couched in unsavoury language with a designed attempt to lower the prestige of the Court-Petitioner issued show cause for contempt of Court. The petitioner, an advocate, filed the application by way of a public interest litigation alleging that the working of the Judges of the apex Court was cocktail, based on Western Common Law and American techniques; that the Court had become a constitutional liability without having control over the illegal acts of Government, and that the Court was sleeping over the issues.
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