Srinagar, Aug. 2 -- In order to discourage the improper use of constitutional remedies, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh has imposed a Rs.50,000 fine on a litigant for filing "unscrupulous and dishonest pleadings" in his writ petition.
The bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal, while dismissing a plea seeking a declaration that the petitioner-SK Trakroo-holds a valid and subsisting allotment of a plot at Rawalpora Housing Colony (now known as Sanat Nagar), Srinagar, and that the subsequent auction and allotment of the plot in favour of A F Mir is illegal, recorded: "It is trite law that a party invoking the extraordinary writ jurisdiction of a constitutional court is expected to approach the Court with clean hands, full candour, and utmost...
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