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2023 (7) TMI 112 - HC - Money LaunderingMoney Laundering - seeking review of order of Supreme Court - SCN sought to be quashed on the ground that Bench constituted under clause (b) of sub-section (5) of section 6 of the PMLA, 2002, did not have a Judicial Member - HELD THAT:- The Supreme Court in numerous judgments has held very clearly that such practice of filing application for modification/clarification of judgment rendered must be deprecated as in actual what it seeks is a review or revision of the judgment which is not permissible. In INDIAN COUNCIL FOR ENVIRO-LEGAL ACTION VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & OTHERS [2011 (7) TMI 1109 - SUPREME COURT] the Supreme Court examined whether a final judgment of the Supreme Court could be reopened by merely filing interlocutory applications. It was held that a final judgment cannot be reopened by merely filing interlocutory applications where all possible legal remedies have been fully exhausted. In the case before the Supreme Court two interlocutory applications had been filed after the Supreme Court had pronounced the judgment. It was held that permitting the parties to reopen the concluded judgments by filing repeated I.As is clearly an abuse of the process of law and would have a far reaching adverse impact on the administration of justice. It was open for the applicant to have preferred a review petition before the learned Single Judge or an appeal before the Division Bench of this Court or even a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court against the judgment dated 22.09.2015 within the prescribed time if they were not satisfied with it - Even if this Court was to consider the application for modification/clarification as one filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. which is the inherent power of this Court to prevent abuse of the process of any Court or otherwise to secure the ends of justice it cannot come to aid a litigant to abuse the process of administration of justice. Application dismissed.
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