{"id":306739,"date":"2018-12-07T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306739"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:34:40","slug":"sc-dismisses-pil-against-finance-minister-jaitley-fines-advocate-rs-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-dismisses-pil-against-finance-minister-jaitley-fines-advocate-rs-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses PIL against Finance Minister Jaitley, fines advocate Rs 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on December 7 has rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) raising allegations against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relating to the capital reserve of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The SC also imposed a penalty of Rs. 50,000 on the lawyer M L Sharma who had filed the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court said that the Supreme Court registry will not accept any petitions from Advocate Sharma unless he pays the fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We find no reason whatsoever to entertain this PIL,&#8221; the top court bench added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou file PIL naming the Fin Min and saying he was likely to plunder RBI resources\u2026?\u201d the top court asked.\u00a0 The Supreme Court expressed displeasure that the advocate made the finance minister as the main party in the PIL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul, further said, \u201cWhat is this PIL? You cannot go on with such misadventure. What exactly is this? You are saying the finance minister is plundering the capital reserve of the RBI. You are not bringing honor to this institution. Why do we permit you to go ahead with this PIL.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on December 7 has rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) raising allegations against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relating to the capital reserve of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The SC also imposed a penalty of Rs. 50,000 on the lawyer M L Sharma who had filed the petition. The top court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2879,10157,1270,189,913,10134,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306740,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306739\/revisions\/306740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}