The Bombay High Court, in a current judgment, slapped a fine of ₹10,000 on a petitioner who had filed a PIL concerning the establishment of a "Sanatan Commission" and State investment for Hindu rituals. The bench composed of Justices Sunil B. Shukre and Firdosh P. Pooniwalla brushed off the PIL as absolutely frivolous and thoroughly baseless, with out a merits in any respect, by manner of a misuse technique. He said that, being a social activist, he found that the Hindu network become being discriminated in opposition to on diverse fronts and there was a dire need to constitute a Sanatan Commission for the protection and advertising of Hindu values and traditions. He additionally pleaded for country investment to the Hindu non secular activities, alleging that the authorities become investment different religions. However, the Court found that there has been no merit inside the arguments advanced. It turned into observed that issues projected within the PIL were the creation of the fertile creativeness of the petitioner and had no significant criminal or real basis to again them. The Court has talked about that the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of religion to all people, treating every religion without choose or discrimination by using the State. It is likewise introduced to the forefront that the petitioner, in his PIL, didn't point out any single reality suggesting that Hindu rituals and traditions had been being ignored or discriminated against. Quoting one of the judgements, the Bench stated it was worried approximately the increasing tendency to file PILs on gratuitous grounds, which, apart from causing loss of valuable judicial time, tended to undermine the real reason of the PIL, intended for redressing problems of public interest and social justice. The Court's selection to impose costs at the petitioner is a hazard to different folks who may think of drawing close the Court underneath comparable frivolous topics. In succinct terms, the Court reiterated that the Judiciary become now not going to be manipulated as a weapon or conduit through which one would in addition their goals and objectives underneath the guise of public hobby. The Court requested the petitioners to be responsible and confined while approaching the court with PILs. It similarly said that the filing of such PETITIONS can also encourage undermining religion in the device. The ₹10,000 fee imposed on the petitioner changed into directed to be deposited inside the Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority inside weeks. This case is a pointer that the judiciary might not tolerate misuse of the PIL mechanism and will tear into all such individuals who try and exploit this provision with issues of personal or communal gains.