Supreme Court of India

Dattaraj Nathuji Thaware v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.

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Bench Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 14 December 2004

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly they loose faith in the administration of our judicial system.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Public Interest Litigation Scope of-Discussed. Abuse-Stopping of-Exemplary punishment-Award of-Directions issue. Extra care to be taken by professionals before filing PIL-Discussed Regulatory mechanism vis-a-vis role of judiciary in handling of PIL­ Discussed Appellant, a legal professional, filed a 'Public Interest Litigation' before the Bombay High Court. The High Court found that there was no public interest involved; that appellant had resorted to black mailing respondent Nos. 6 & 7 and he was also caught red handed accepting money from the respondents; and that allegation of unauthorized…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 5 referred to · 17 mentioned

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