Supreme Court of India

Suresh Srivastava & Ors. v. Sundeep Bhutoria

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Reported as [2022] 1 S.C.R. 875
Bench Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 21 March 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that when the High Court has registered the matter as a PIL, it ought to be dealt with as a non-adversarial litigation.

Judgment, page 2

From the headnote

Public Interest Litigation: Instant matter was registered as PIL by High Court – Therefore, it ought to be dealt wit h as a non- adversarial litigation – Respondent in the instant a ppeal, who is said to have brought certain facts to the notice of the igh Court, is, otherwise, standing in the capacity of a disput ant qua the appellants – That being the position, the observati ons made in paragraph 17 of the order impugned, where the High Court has permitted the respondent to assist the Court and th ereby has practically assigned him the role of an amicus, do not appear compatible with the

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