Srinagar, Dec. 10 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh dismissed a petition filed by 82-year-old Abdul Gani Bhat and imposed exemplary costs of Rs 2 lakh on him while calling him a habitual and vexatious litigant who has repeatedly abused the judicial process by filing frivolous cases against judges, court officials and even his own daughter-in-law.
Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul, while pronouncing order on December 8 expressed deep concern over the petitioner's "disturbing pattern" of filing baseless petitions under different legal provisions but based on the same set of allegations.
The judge noted that Bhat has been spending "most of his time in courts" and has made it a practice to level "wild, indecent and scandalous allegat...