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Man slapped with ₹50,000 fine for filing frivolous plea
The New Indian Express
|August 10, 2024
THE Madras High Court has imposed a cost of 50,000 on a man for filing a frivolous petition and disrupting the court proceedings without respecting the decorum.
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The first bench of Acting Chief Justice D Krishnakumar and Justice PB Balaji recently passed the orders for imposing the costs on the petitioner Kannan Swaminathan - and directed him to pay the amount to the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority.
This story is from the August 10, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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