2000 (11) TMI 92

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..... blic interest litigation (PIL) admittedly by a relative of the eight persons against whom he wanted the Commissioner (Vigilance), Income-tax Department, Hyderabad, to take action in accordance with the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961, is totally unjustified and vexatious apart from being totally vague. The petitioner except stating in his representation dated November 5, 1999, addressed to .....

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..... or extraneous consideration. This court speaking through one of us (S. R. Nayak J.) while dealing with unscrupulous and unjustified public interest litigation in Thakur Bahadur Singh v. Government of Andhra Pradesh [1998] 5 ALT 567 (AP) had to observe in para. 12 as under : "Time has come for the constitutional courts not only to nip the unscrupulous and unjustified public interest litigations i .....

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..... st litigation at the cost of the public just paying Rs. 100 towards court fee, a pittance when compared to the actual cost incurred by the State." Public interest litigation is a legal technique, a noble responsible technique which could be resorted to only by a bona fide public character surcharged by only public interest and nothing else. Under the garb of public interest litigation no person c .....

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