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W.P.(C)No.9269/2017 Page 48 of 51
(ii) The court should also ensure that there is no oblique motive behind filing the public interest litigation, etc. etc. Therefore, while dealing with PIL, the Court has to be vigilant and it must ensure that the forum of the Court be neither abused nor used to achieve an oblique purpose."

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78. The above narration would show that the petitioner has filed unsubstantiated pleas and also has not made out a prima facie case in support of the challenge. On the same aspect, Mr. Sanjay Jain, ld. ASG refers to a decision dated 26th October, 2017 in W.P.(Crl.)No.1938/2017, Subramanian Swamy & Ors. v. Delhi Police & Ors., relevant extract whereof is reproduced hereunder: