The Gujarat high court has fined a litigant for arguing with the court even after an order was pronounced. A division bench comprising chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya and justice KM Thaker directed that the petitioner Dilip Shah deposit Rs20,000 as fine with the state legal services authority.

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Shah had filed a PIL challenging a land transaction.

He alleged in the petition that a fraud of Rs12 crore by the Ben Lilawati Lalbhai Trust and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation had been done while allocating the land in question to an energy company.

The high court however dismissed the petition on the grounds that there was no public interest in the case.

However, Shah's advocate Girish Das began arguing even after the order was pronounced. The high court then imposed the fine.