Supreme Court today denied a man’s request to be named India’s President and ordered the Registry to stop considering his future requests in this regard.
Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli’s bench deemed the petition to be “frivolous” and a misuse of the court’s procedure. According to the apex court, the petition was “scurrilous.”
The court had rejected Kishore Jagannath Sawant’s argument and ordered the Registry not to take his subsequent petition on the same subject matter any time soon.
The register has been ordered by the court to remove Sawant’s “scurrilous” comments from the record.
The petitioner-in-person, Sawant, claimed that he was prohibited from running in the most recent presidential election.
He claimed to be an environmentalist and stated that he would seek to resolve all of the world’s “messy circumstances.”
During the hearing, Supreme Court stated that although he can offer statements based on his specialised knowledge as an environmentalist, filing petitions in this manner is not the proper method.