Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 251 · Decided 12 April 2004
N.K. Prasada v. Government of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 251 · [2004] 3 S.C.R. 1178
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3137/1999
- Decided
- 12 April 2004
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, S.B. SINHA, S.H. KAPADIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 136
Headnote
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 without any merits and dismissed it by administering a severe warning to the petitioner- D High Court also imposed exemplary costs on the said person for abuse of the judicial process in the name of Pll--Correctness of-Held: This is not a case where interference of the Supreme Court is called
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