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Apex court trashes PIL against Pranab, warns
petitioner
Friday July 06, 2012 03:59:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Friday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking
directions to the central government to conduct an inquiry against
presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee for canvassing votes
before resigning as the union finance minister.
An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice H.L. Gokhale,
dismissing the PIL by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma, said this court
was not a theatre for his farcical play.
The court imposed a cost of Rs.50,000 on the petitioner - which it
subsequently withdrew with a warning that any such repeat of
farcical PIL in future would invite heavy cost.
As petitioner Sharma pleaded before the court that the cost of
such a huge amount would destroy him, Justice Alam told him that
he was destroying the system.
Right in the beginning, the court had asked Sharma if he was
seriously pursuing his petition and cautioned him of the
consequences it may invite.
"Mr. Sharma, are you seriously pursuing this application? We are
cautioning you," the court said, right at the outset of the
hearing.
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