Rs 10k cost imposed on petitioner

The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sundar while dismissing the plea questioning the recruitment process of TANGEDCO, said “We find the present petition a gross abuse of the process of the court.” 

The petitioner has not taken the examination and he is no way connected with the examination process, which commenced in February 2016. The process envisaged the acceptable form of 15 per cent of marks assigned to viva voce. The mere apprehension of the petitioner that there may be possibility of some irregularity in the viva voce cannot be a ground to quash the process of the examination, the bench said. 

“As observed by the Supreme Court recently, it is time that parties filing frivolous petitions must be called upon to pay for wastage of judicial time, the bench added and imposed the cost of Rs 10,000 on the petitioner, which should be deposited with the TN Mediation and Conciliation Centre in Madras High Court campus.