The Supreme Court made an example of RJD MLA Ravindra Singh on Friday by fining him Rs 10 lakh for wasting “precious judicial time” through frivolous litigation, thus sending a message to habitual PIL petitioners to be wary of hefty costs.
Half-an-hour before rejecting the plea for leniency of the Bihar legislator — he had questioned the veracity of an article published in a magazine in 1994 — a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices N V Ramana and D Y Chandrachud had imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a retired 66-year-old teacher from Maharashtra who had moved the SC to challenge a reservation related notification of the state government.
