HC imposed costs of Rs. 10,000 for levelling ‘unfounded allegations’ against a judicial officer of a lower court.
A single judge in the Madras High Court bench here has reprimanded a religious trust and imposed a cost of Rs. 10,000 for levelling ‘unfounded allegations’ against a judicial officer of a lower court.
Dismissing two petitions filed by G. Venkatachalapathy, the secretary of Sathu Dharmananda Saraswathi Swamigal Trust in Dindgul, Justice N. Kirubakaran held that no person can be allowed to ‘throw mud on the lower court judicial officers for their own cause.’
Mr. Venkatachalapathy had moved the High Court to transfer two cases, on the trust’s right to organise Thai Poosam festival at a private property in dispute, from the Principal District Court, Dindigul, to the district courts in Coimbatore or Karur with allegations that the Principal District Judge pressurised his counsel to argue the case and dispose it without giving them adjournment to submit their counter affidavits.
https://www.lawweb.in/2014/01/hc-imposed-costs-of-rs-10000-for.html
