The Supreme Court on Friday imposed a cost of ₹1 lakh on an NGO for filing a writ petition under Article 32 seeking to challenge the 2014 Constitution Bench judgment which upheld exemption of minority educational institutions from the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan dismissed the plea and described the petition as the grossest abuse of process.

" No writ petition is maintainable against judgement of the Supreme Court. This is the grossest abuse of the process of law and of the court. We dismiss this petition with cost of Rs. 1 lakh payable to the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee. We restrain ourselves from issuing any notice to the petitioner with regard to any contempt proceedings ", he Co

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