Supreme Court of India

Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [1988] 1 S.C.R. 441
Bench Ranganath Misra and K.N. Singh JJ.
Decided 9 October 1987

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the petition is an act against public interest.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Contempt of Court Act, 1971: s.15-Writ Petition by way of public interest litigation-Couched in unsavoury language with a designed attempt to lower the prestige of the Court-Petitioner issued show cause for contempt of Court. f-- The petitioner, an advocate, filed the application by way of a public interest litigation alleging that the working of the J odges of the apex Court was cocktail, based on Western Common Law and Ameri· can techniques; that the Court had become a constitotioual liability without having control over the illegal acts of Government, and that the c Court was sleeping over

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