Supreme Court of India

State of Jharkhand v. Shiv Shankar Sharma and Ors.

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Bench Uday Umesh Lalit, S. R. Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia JJ.
Decided 7 November 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that there is no bona fide in the Public Interest Litigation filed by the petitioner.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Constitution of India: Art. 32 – Public Interest Litigation – Misuse of PIL – Maintainability of PIL – Two writ petitions as Public Interest Litigations filed before the High Court by respondent No. 1, seeking direction to the Directorate General, Investigation Income Tax to enquire into the money transferred by the Chief Minister of Jharkhand’s Family in the name of private respondents through the shell companies and to investigate the source of income of private respondents and investigate financial crime committed by the Chief Minister – In second one, direction sought to prosecute the…

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