HC imposes ₹10,000 cost on lawyer for PIL on bank EMIs

Chennai:1.5.2020

Madras high court imposed Rs 10,000 as cost on a lawyer who wanted the court to direct the Union government and the RBI to extend the EMI moratorium granted for all types of bank loans till July without interest.

A special bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice M Nirmal Kumar imposed the cost while dismissing the plea moved by advocate B Ramkumar Adityan. The court also wondered whether the petitioner, who is a lawyer, himself has personally contributed anything towards Covid-19 relief measures. According to the petitioner, everyone irrespective of profession has suffered financially in this nationwide lockdown. TNN