The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking an inquiry into fraudulent medical certifications, while admonishing the petitioner for routinely burdening the judiciary with frequent filings.
A bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe rejected the plea brought forward by advocate Narendra Kumar Goswami. In his petition, Goswami had sought judicial directions to conduct an audit of existing medical regulations and establish an expert panel to investigate the prevalence of fake and forged medical qualifications.
During the hearing, the bench took strong exception to the advocate’s recurrent litigation habits, observing that he had created a factory of filing roughly one writ petition every week based on whatever appeared in the news. The justices questioned whether the submissions were driven by a desire for personal publicity and popularity, directing the lawyer to refrain from routinely piling the court with such matters.
