Rajasthan High Court Dismisses Husband’s Plea Alleging Plagiarism In Research By Wife; Says Court Cannot Be Used To Settle Personal Scores
The Rajasthan High Court reiterated that litigants cannot be permitted to misuse the process of this Court by filing the baseless petitions with an ulterior motive to waste the time of other litigants.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand, Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court dismissed a Writ Petition filed by a husband, who alleged plagiarism in research by his wife, after stating that the process of the Court cannot be used to settle personal scores between parties.
The Court stated that the Petition was filed with an “oblique motive” by the husband since he had already submitted a complaint against the wife by the Universirt of Rajasthan to examine the case of plagiarism alleged.
A Single Bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held, “Platform of this Court cannot be used to settle the personal grudges or disputes. If, at all, the petitioner, being husband of the respondent No.5, is having some ill-will against his wife (here, respondent No.5), he shall not be permitted to misuse the process of this Court, by filing the instant baseless writ petition with an ulterior motive to waste the time of other litigants.”
Advocate Shobit Tiwari appeared for the Petitioner.
Brief Facts
The husband had filed a complaint with the University of Rajasthan, claiming that his wife had committed plagiarism in her research thesis. The University constituted a committee to investigate the allegation. However, the husband then filed a Writ Petition seeking directions to the University to take action against his wife.
Court’s Reasoning
The High Court remarked, “Now, with an oblique motive to settle his personal score, the petitioner has submitted this writ petition. Such act of the petitioner is sheer abuse of the process of law because the law will take its own motion. It is the settled proposition of law that process of law should not be allowed to be misused by a litigant to satisfy his personal grudges and oblique considerations to settle personal scores.”
The Bench held that “the platform of this Court cannot be used to settle personal scores between the parties. The platform of this Court cannot be permitted to be misused by way of filing such like writ petitions and the same has tantamount to abuse of process of law. The job of the petitioner is over, the moment, the complaint was submitted by him. Thereafter, the respondent-University has constituted a Committee to examine the truth in the allegation, hence, the respondents are expected to proceed further with the complaint in accordance with law.”
The Court referred to the decision of the Supreme Court in Chanchalpati Das v. The State of West Bengal, wherein it was held, “We would like to add that just as bad coins drive out good coins from circulation, bad cases drive out good cases from being heard on time. Because of the proliferation of frivolous cases in the courts, the real and genuine cases have to take a backseat and are not being heard for years together. The party who initiates and continues a frivolous, irresponsible and senseless litigation or who abuses the process of the court must be saddled with exemplary cost, so that others may deter to follow such course.”
Consequently, the Court ordered, “The instant writ petition is highly misconceived, hence, the same is liable to be and is hereby rejected. All pending application(s), if any, stands dismissed.”
Accordingly, the High Court dismissed the Petition.
Cause Title: X v. University of Rajasthan & Ors. (Neutral Citation: 2025:RJ-JP:18877)