Frivolous Cases Are Delaying Matters Of National Importance: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court bench said, "Frivolous matters are making the institution dysfunctional. These matters waste important time of the court, which could have been spent on serious matters, pan-India matters."

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that frivolous cases being filed before it are consuming most of its time, making the institution dysfunctional and delaying matters of national importance. The remarks of the special bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah came while hearing an application related to a consumer dispute. The bench said that the matter has already been disposed of and final order passed but the petitioner has come up again with an application on a petty issue. We cannot pass another order in an already disposed of matter. We should not be hearing you. Actually, this is how the Supreme Court is becoming dysfunctional. Judges have to spend their important time to go through these files before the start of the day, Justice Chandrachud said.