HC imposes Rs 1 lakh fine for filing plea by concealing facts
Lucknow, May 14 -- Filing a petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court by concealing facts proved costly for a litigant.
The court imposed a cost (fine) of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner.
This order was passed by a single judge bench of justice Brij Raj Singh recently, dismissing the petition of Chandrama Devi Agrahari.
During the hearing, the court found that the petitioner had challenged a summoning order issued by the Sultanpur additional chief judicial magistrate in a criminal complaint case.
However, she had also filed a revision petition against the same order before the Sultanpur Sessions Court.
This fact was not disclosed by the petitioner in her petition.
The court took this seriously and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner, of which Rs 30,000 will be given to the complainant in the case, while Rs 70,000 will be payable to the State Legal Services Authority.htc...
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