India, Oct. 4 -- The Delhi High Court recently imposed costs of Rs 50,000 on two litigants who sought transfer of a case pending before a district court on the ground that the trial judge allegedly addressed the opposite party in a "friendly manner" inside the courtroom.
Justice Saurabh Banerjee observed the transfer plea carried misleading and mythical assertions and allegations regarding a sitting trial judge without any evidence.
"The petitioners by way of the present petition are trying to cast unwarranted, fictious and fallacious aspersions by making flimsy, misleading and mythical assertions on a sitting Judge of the learned Trial Court, which are not only contrary to the records before this Court but also without any backing theret...