AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat excessive court docket on Thursday imposed nice of Rs 10,000 on an advocate for submitting two petitions demanding euthanasia for his purchasers, who claimed that their issues weren’t addressed by the authorities involved and therefore they be permitted to commit suicide.
Justice A S Supehia made castigating remarks in opposition to advocate Dharmesh Gurjar for submitting the petitions – one for searching for euthanasia for 600 members of fishing neighborhood from Gosabara wetlands in Porbandar and the second for a dismissed bus conductor, who claimed that his battle in opposition to corruption within the Gujarat State Highway Transport Company (GSRTC) was of no avail.
The court docket imposed a nice of Rs 5,000 every for submitting two petitions, which had been frivolous in nature and wasted the time of the court docket, registry and authorities attorneys, the decide noticed.
The court docket additionally stated that the lawyer will not be conscious of the idea of euthanasia and in what circumstances such demand is made. The lawyer ought to have at the least honoured the religion posed in him by his purchasers. The court docket stated that it was at ache to see such petitions the place no provision of legislation was talked about. The legislation resorted to was the Beginning and Loss of life Registration Act, which has no reference to this problem.
The lawyer requested the court docket to not impose nice on him and nice his purchasers as an alternative, for this might adversely influence his profession. However the decide didn’t budge and even recorded that the court docket was shocked to know that the lawyer had labored as a authorities lawyer previously.
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