Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a litigant who had portrayed himself as the owner of a property when he was, in fact, the tenant. This is at least the fifth instance of a litigant approaching the court with an “oblique” motive and for “mala fide” purposes this month.

Justice Mini Pushkarna of the High Court has been coming down hard on these cases, all involving disputes around property and alleged illegal construction, in which litigants have tried to misuse the legal process to blackmail and extort, to arm-twist builders, and to deceive and defraud the court itself.

In orders passed earlier in these cases, Justice Pushkarna has deprecated this “concerning trend”, and imposed costs between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh on these “unscrupulous” litigants.

In the latest case

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