ORDER

Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J

1. Delay condoned.

2. Once it had been commented that anti-social elements i.e. FERA violators, bride burners and whole horde of reactionaries have found their safe haven in the Supreme Court and such a comment became subject matter of contempt of this Court and had to be dealt with by this Court in P.N. Duda v. P. Shiv Shanker & Ors.,1 AIR 1988 SC 1208.

3. This Court in Rathinam v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr.,2 (2011) 11 SCC 140 quoted the observations made by the High Court in that case expressing its views that common man must feel assured to get justice and observed as under:

“Let not the mighty and the rich think that courts are their paradise and in the legal arena they are the dominant players.”

4. These judgments make one thing crystal clear that criminals do not hesitate approaching courts even by abusing the process of the court and some times succeed also. The instant case belongs to the same category. Petitioner feels that merely because he is a black- marketeer and succeeded in exploiting the helplessness of the poor people of the Society and is capable of engaging lawyers, he has a right to use, abuse and misuse the process of the court and can