A Delhi court last week dismissed a plea filed by advocate Mehmood Pracha seeking to declare the Ram Janmabhoomi Ayodhya judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in 2019, as null and void. The court also slapped a fine of ₹6 lakh on Mr. Pracha for filing a “false and frivolous” appeal.
District judge Dharmender Rana of the Patiala House Courts in an order issued on October 18 said that of late, a very negative trend is discernible in the society which is to target important public functionaries after they demit offices.
“Some unscrupulous litigants nurtures a misconceived notion that upon demitting office an ex-public functionary becomes vulnerable and prone to all kind of malicious and malefic assault,” the court said.
In Ayodhya judgment, Supreme Court relied on principles of possession and balance of probabilities
It added that the situation becomes distressful when the protector himself turns predator. In the case at hand, the appellant, despite being a fairly senior counsel, has opted to choose the wrong colour of jersey.
