Swapan Majumdar and 14 Ors v. The North East Frontier Railway and 3 Ors

ORDER

06.03.2024 (Vijay

Bishnoi, CJ) This intra-Court appeal is filed on behalf of the appellants being aggrieved with the order dated 02.02.2024 whereby the writ petition filed on behalf of the appellants is dismissed on the ground of concealment of material facts. The learned Single Judge while dismissing the writ petition has imposed a cost of Rs.25,000/- on the appellants. The learned counsel for the appellants has submitted that he is not challenging the impugned order on merit but is only aggrieved by the direction passed by the learned Single Judge of imposing a cost of Rs.25,000/- upon the appellants. The learned counsel has submitted that the appellants ought to have disclosed the material facts before the learned Single Judge. It is submitted that the fact regarding filing of earlier writ petitions could not be brought into the notice of the learned Single Judge due to bonafide mistake and the appellants had no intention to mislead the Court. It is also submitted that the appellants are poor persons and based on the legal advice had preferred the writ petition. The learned counsel has, therefore, prayed that the costs imposed by the learned Single Judge be made easy. The learned counsel appearing for the respondents has opposed the request Page No.# 6/6 made by the learned counsel for the appellants to make the cost imposed by the learned Single Judge easy. Having heard the learned counsel for the parties and particularly taking into consideration the fact that the appellants are poor persons, we deem it appropriate to interfere with the impugned order upto the extent of imposing a cost of Rs.25,000/. Resultantly, the cost imposed by the learned Single Judge of Rs.25,000/- vide impugned judgment is made easy. We want to clarify that we have not passed any order on merits and have also not interfered with the impugned order except the imposition of cost. The Writ Appeal stands disposed of.

JUDGE CHIEF JUSTICE Comparing Assistant

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