Category : SC -- About frivolous cases
New Delhi : " The couldn't-care-less and insouciant attitude of the
Union government with regard to litigation has gone a little too far,"
the Supreme Court said and castigated the Centre for repeatedly filing
appeals on identical questions of law despite being fined earlier for
clogging the justice delivery system with frivolous cases.
Ticking off the Centre for snail-paced efforts to streamline its
litigation policy, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta recently used the NDA government's reformist slogan of " ease of doing business " to make a sharp point. " Under the garb of ease of doing
business, judiciary is being asked to reform. The boot is really on
the other leg," the bench said.
Pointing to the collateral damage the overcrowding of the judicial
system caused other litigants, besides financial liabilities of the
government, the court asked when the " Rip Van Winkleism " would end.
" We hope that someday, some sense, if not better sense, will
prevail on the Union of India with regard to the formulation of a
realistic litigation policy and what it calls ' ease of doing business
', which can, if faithfully implemented, benefit litigants," the bench
said. ..............
( The Times of India, Chennai, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 )
Courtesy : MPS
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