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6. We have perused the document and in fact the Law Department has placed reliance on the ruling of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Director of Income Tax, New Delhi v. SRMB Dairy Farming Pvt. Ltd.1, wherein the Hon'ble Apex Court has lamented and expressed its concern in the following words:-
"the propensity of Government Departments and public authorities to keep litigating through different tires of judicial scrutiny" as "one of the reasons for docket explosion".

7. The document in its entirety reflects the concern of one wing of the Government and we have been seeing that the other wings of the Government maintaining a blissful ignorance to this monumental issue of docket explosion. This is not the first case where this Bench has expressed its grave concern and in fact on more than three occasions, this Court has expressed its displeasure and that too, in no uncertain terms, for the Departments having come up with petitions even as against mere directions, directing various Departments to consider the representations. There are any number of cases, where despite receiving hiding from the Tribunal, and despite Departments not being able to controvert a single reason assigned by the Tribunal, they have gone ahead and (2018) 400 ITR 9 (SC) preferred writ petitions. In fact in some cases, including this case, a negative opinion has been rendered opining against the filing of the appeal or a writ petition. Yet the Departments have proceeded to approached this Court. Even in the instant case, despite the opinion being in the negative, an attempt has been made before this Court and that too, without any justification by the petitioners.

10. The petition is wholly devoid of merits. Accordingly, the writ petition stands dismissed.

11. Be that as it may. We feel that time has come where this Court is required to send a message to the biggest litigant and that merely because it is the biggest litigant, it will not be a license to enable it in filing all and sundry cases, which eat into the valuable judicial time. The irony is that the State is one of the prime movers to popularize the Alternate Dispute Resolution System and in this background, the State cannot be the reason for docket explosion. Hence, we deem it appropriate to issue certain directions, which we hope and consider, the concerned stake holders would appreciate in its true spirit.