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1998 Supreme(SC) 1000
1998(7) Supreme 424
Supreme Court of India
(From Madhya Pradesh High Court)
Dr. A.S. Anand, B.N. Kirpal and V.N. Khare, JJ.
Sanjay Musale -Petitioner
versus
State of M.P. & Ors. -Respondents
Record of Proceedings and Computer Code No. 6170 of 1998
Decided on 17-9-1998
Counsel for the Parties :
For the Petitioner : Shiv Sagar Tiwari, Advocate.
Important Point
Where no public interest is involved in the petition and High Court rightly found the petitioner to be a busy body, such a interloper cannot be permitted to maintain public interest litigation petition.
Headnote:Public Interest litigation-The petitioner appears to have filed litigation for someone-No public interest involved-High Court rightly dismissed it-SLP dismissed with costs. (Para 2)
Order
Delay condoned.
2. The writ petition filed in the High Court by the petitioner concealed material facts as is noticed in the impugned order. The petitioner appears to have filed the litigation for someone. There is no public interest involved in the petition. The High Court rightly found him to be a busy body and, in our opinion, such a meddle-some interloper cannot be permitted to maintain Public Interest Litigation Petition. The courts cannot allow their forum to be misused in the garb of “public interest”. This special leave petition is, therefore, dismissed with Rs. 5,000/- as costs.
(N.K.R.) SLP dismissed.
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