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Sanjay Musale v. State of M.P. and Ors.

Supreme Court of India · 1998 INSC 366 · 1998

Coram: A.S. ANAND, B.N. KIRPAL, V.N. KHARE

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E Delay condoned. 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, F in our opinion, such a meddlesome 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. R.P. Petition dismissed. 646