Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 217 · Decided 10 April 2006
T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 217 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 1046
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 202/1995
- Decided
- 10 April 2006
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Public Interest litigation (P/L)-Bonafide litigants-Locus standi­ P/L filed by an applicant set up by others-Maintainability of-Held: Courts C should not allow its process to be abused by a mere busybody or a meddlesome interloper or wayfarer or officious intervener without any interest or consideration­ T'he filing of an entirely misconceived and ma la fide application in the garb of public interest litigation by the applicant is strongly deprecated-In order to curb such PILs, exemplary cost imposed-Constitution of India, 1950, Art. D 32. Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980:
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