The Supreme Court pulled up a lawyer who sought an FIR against top constitutional authorities over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, calling the plea frivolous. The Court kept the High Court’s ₹50,000 cost order in abeyance after the petitioner expressed remorse and withdrew the case.
The Allahabad High Court has referred a significant legal question regarding its power to quash FIRs to a nine-judge bench. Justice Deshwal disagreed with a previous seven-judge ruling from 1989, citing recent Supreme Court decisions that broadened the interpretation of High Courts’ inherent powers, arguing the old precedent is now “obsolete.”
