Remarking that the trust of the Court should not be destroyed by the Bar, the Supreme Court today imposed an exemplary cost of Rs 10,000 on each appellant in a matter for suppression of facts.

Before a bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Vipul M Pancholi, an advocate made a mention for the listing of an Interlocutory Application(IA), which the Court said it would list. However, later, the Court was informed that a review petition is pending in this matter.

When a Senior Advocate appeared in this matter, Justice Narasimha asked why the fact that the IA was filed in a matter where a review was pending was suppressed from the Court. The judge remarked that the Court, as an institution, puts a lot of blind trust in the Bar that such practices would not be followed.

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