Important Legal Definitions

Monetary financial penalties imposed by constitutional courts upon petitioners who file frivolous, politically motivated, or vexatious writ petitions disguised as public interest litigations.

In Dattaraj Nathuji Thaware v. State of Maharashtra, the Supreme Court dismissed a PIL filed by an advocate as an instrument of blackmail against a local enterprise, imposing exemplary costs on the petitioner to deter abuse of the judicial process.