SC grants final chance to NGO to pay penalty for frivolous PIL; warns of contempt action
New Delhi, May 27 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a final opportunity to the Akhil Bhartiya Shanti Pratishthan to deposit the balance amount of Rs 35,000 as part of a cost imposed for filing a frivolous Public Interest Litigation (PIL), sternly warning that no further extensions would be granted and failure to comply may lead to suo motu contempt proceedings.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta expressed displeasure over the petitioner's repeated delay in paying the penalty amount of Rs 45,000, which was originally imposed on October 14, 2022, when the petitioner's writ petition was dismissed. So far, only Rs 10,000 has been deposited in the PM CARES Fund, with the remaining Rs 35,000 still unpaid.
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