On 29th September 2020, Tuesday, as per order dated May 1st, 2017, in view of the observations made by Hon’ble Supreme Court, notice was issued to NGO Suraz India Trust for not depositing the cost of ₹25 Lakh, disclosure of all movable and immovable assets of the original petitioner so that the costs can be recovered, stated the Hon’ble Justices S.K. Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy.

In May 2017, the Hon’ble Supreme Court imposed an exemplary cost of ₹25 Lakh on NGO Suraz India Trust for filing 64 cases in various High Courts and also in the Apex Court and thus, wasting precious judicial time. Hon’ble Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Kehar led a three-judge bench restrained the trust and its Chairman Rajiv Dhaiya from filing any case or PIL in any court. The bench took it in a serious manner that Dhaiya even went to the residence of Supreme Court Judges, including that of CJI, raising various allegations against the Supreme Court registry staff. 

The bench directed, "To stop this practice, we direct Suraz India Trust will not file any case. Rajiv Dahiya was restrained from filing any public cause directly or indirectly”, hearing this matter for more than 3 hours, The Hon’ble CJI bench including Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice S.K. Kaul. 

Dhaiya has raised several allegations against Judges in the name of the public cause but he was not successful in a single case. The bench took note of all the 64 cases filed by Suraz Trust. 

Before, the Hon’ble Supreme Court suggested Mr. Dhaiya to give an undertaking to the court that he would not file any case in court while Mr. Dhaiya requested to make him as amicus. But after listening to Mr. Dhaiya’s submission for about two hours, the bench found him to be unqualified to pursue the case as an amicus. 

The CJI directed the Courts not to entertain the cases filed by the trust since 2010.


-This news has been reported by Urvi Yadav