Rs 50k costs imposed on ex-RAW officer for filing PIL to create two parliamentary seats in POK and Gilgit/Baltistan

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]HE Supreme Court on Monday, June 01, 2019 dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a former officer of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) R K Yadav seeking a direction to the Central Government to create two parliamentary seats for Pakistan Occupied Kashmir  (PoK) and Gilgit/Baltistan.

“Ex facie, the prayers are not tenable and not appropriate for judicial interpretation. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed with the costs of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only), to be deposited with the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee, within a period of four weeks from today,” a three-judge bench comprising the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose ordered.

 

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