Justice Valmiki J Mehta also rapped the man, saying it is high time that courts should send out a strong message to dishonest litigants by imposing heaviest of costs.
"This court knows that it is 'kalyug'. Not only it is kalyug, we are at a deep end in kalyug. In such age and time, surely it is not inconvenient and unknown for litigants to make totally false allegations against an earlier counsel ....
Octogenarian Bachan Singh Kumar's appeals were dismissed in 2014 as not pressed, recording the submission of his counsel, by giving time to him to vacate a building in South Delhi's East of Kailash area before the end of 2016.
However, in January this year, he came with an application seeking recall of the order stating that his earlier counsel cheated and defrauded him by taking signatures on the affidavit of undertaking. He also had approached Bar Council complaining against the lawyer.
The court imposed a cost of Rs two lakh and issued a contempt notice.
"The facts of the present case also persuade me to issue a notice of contempt against the applicant/appellant in spite of the fact that today the applicant/appellant is 84 years of age because it is high time that, irrespective of age, gross dishonesty is taken note of and acted upon strongly by this court," the court added.
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