Flagging the rising trend of filing frivolous cases, the Punjab & Haryana High Court has said that the investigating officers are not merely postmen, who are there only to forward the complaints they receive to the Courts and to add "unnecessary pressure to the judicial system" and "ruin lives of citizens. Flagging the rising trend of filing frivolous cases, the …
The High Court here Friday imposed a fine of Rs 15 lakh on an Allahabad University teacher for filing frivolous cases under the SC/ST Act against her three senior colleagues and quashed the FIRs filed by her. The court said the complainant, an assistant professor in the economics department, knows the law very well and “had been abusing the provisions …
The Karnataka High Court recently while quashing the criminal proceedings initiated against a school headmaster under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, by a school teacher, observed, “Haystack of frivolous cases have mushroomed to a large extent that searching a genuine case in the haystack has become like searching for a needle in a haystack, as most the cases …
