"Mushroom Growth" Of PILs Concerning, Some Read Newspaper & File Petition By Evening : CJI Surya Kant
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Tuesday expressed concerns over the "mushroom growth" of Public Interest Litigation petitions. The CJI said that the agenda of some "prominent persons" seemed to be to read newspapers in the morning and file a petition by the evening.
"We are on the mushroom growth of PILs. Looks like there are some prominent faces now whose only agenda is to read the newspaper in the morning and file a petition by evening," CJI said during the hearing of a matter today.
In a 2022 judgment as well, the Supreme Court had commented about the "mushroom growth of public interest litigations". "However, in many of such petitions, there is no public interest involved at all. The petitions are either publicity interest litigations or personal interest litigation. We highly deprecate practice of filing such frivolous petitions. They are nothing but abuse of process of law. They encroach upon a valuable judicial time which could be otherwise utilized for considering genuine issues. It is high time that such socalled public interest litigations are nipped in the bud so that the developmental activities in the larger public interest are not stalled," the Court had commented then.