SC orders recovery of Rs 5 lakh cost for filing “motivated” PIL in 2017 against then CJI's appointment
The Hindu
Swami Om and Mukesh Jain had in 2017 questioned the practise of recommending to the President, the name of successor by the incumbent Chief Justice of India
The Supreme Court on July 30 directed that ₹5 lakh cost be recovered from the land of a litigant who had filed a “motivated” petition in 2017 challenging the appointment of the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Swami Om (now deceased) and Mukesh Jain had in 2017 questioned the practise of recommending to the President, the name of successor by the incumbent Chief Justice of India. A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and M.R. Shah also took note of the application for reduction of cost filed by Mr. Jain, who is currently in Balasore jail in Odisha in another case and said he has again made “some unfounded allegations against the judges of the top court”.
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