New Delhi, March 11 -- A cloth trader from Ludhiana who walked into India's Supreme Court armed with a PIL packed with sophisticated legal terminology could not explain a single term in it, prompting Chief Justice Surya Kant to deliver one of the court's more memorable rebukes in recent memory.

The Public Interest Litigation, related to the PM Cares Fund, came before a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice R Mahadevan.

From the outset, the language of the petition, dense with constitutional principles and legal nomenclature, sat uneasily with the man presenting it, Bar and Bench reported.

The petitioner, a hosiery goods trader who had studied only until Class 12 and had never previously filed a ...