‘Abuse of law’: Supreme Court junks Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s plea for changing jail

Calling it an abuse of the process of the law, the Supreme Court on February 18 dismissed a plea of alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar to shift him from Mandoli Jail in the National Capital to any other prison, except ones in Punjab and Delhi.

Calling it an abuse of the process of the law, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) dismissed a plea of alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar to shift him from Mandoli Jail in the National Capital to any other prison, except ones in Punjab and Delhi.

A Bench of Justices Bela M. Trivedi and P.B. Varale noted similar pleas previously filed by Chandrasekhar were dismissed by the top court.

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The Bench told Chandrasekhar that his grievance was against the Delhi government and now with a change in the dispensation, the grievance does not survive.

"You have money to spend, you keep on taking chances. This is abuse of process of law. How can you keep filing same petition?" it said.

It went on, "We are not inclined to entertain the petition filed under Article 32 of the constitution. We have not expressed opinion on merits of the case. However we cannot resist ourselves in expressing that present petitioner has tried to misuse process of law by filing writs one after another under guise of changed circumstances."

Senior advocate Shoeb Alam, appearing for Chandrasekhar, said the petitioner had a right under Article 21 of the Constitution not to be kept away from his family.