2000 (11) TMI 92

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..... 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 the Commissioner that those eight persons named by him in the .....

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..... 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 in the bud but also to make the movers of such public interes .....

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..... 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 can be permitted to abuse the process of law and waste the j .....

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