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New Delhi, Sep 24: The Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “frivolous” a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre and IITs to formulate and implement a student wellness program to curb rising number of suicides in campuses and imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on the lawyer for filing it.
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The top court said the government was alive to the situation and dismissed the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Gaurav Bansal on the issue of suicides in IITs across the country.
“This is an utterly frivolous petition. Tell us how much cost we should impose on you,” a…
