Supreme Court of India

N.K. Prasada v. Government of India and Ors.

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Bench V.N. Khare, S.B. Sinha and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 12 April 2004

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Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 226 and 136-Public Interest Litigation (PJL)-Abuse of process c of Court-Writ petition filed in High Court by way of PJL alleging malfunctioning of the Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs-High Court found that the writ petition was engineered by a person with an oblique motive to avoid his transfer-High Court found the writ petition without any merits and dismissed it by administering a severe warning to the petitioner- High Court also imposed exemplary costs on the said person for abuse of the judicial process in the name of Pll--Correctness…

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