{"id":58033,"date":"2025-08-04T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58033"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:52:01","slug":"collusive-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/collusive-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Collusive Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Collusive Litigation Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has taken a suo motu cognisance of &#8220;collusive litigations&#8221; by officials of the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Collusive Litigation<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is defined as a <\/span><b>lawsuit <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where the <\/span><b>parties involved are not genuinely adversarial<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but <\/span><b>rather cooperate to achieve a desired outcome<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or to challenge the constitutionality of a law.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These suits often involve a <\/span><b>degree of cooperation between the parties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who may <\/span><b>share a common goal or interest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the outcome.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the <\/span><b>key issues <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">surrounding these suits include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>potential for abuse<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where <\/span><b>parties may collude to manipulate the judicial process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or achieve an outcome that might not be possible through other means.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The risk of<\/span><b> undermining the adversarial system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where the court&#8217;s decision is based on a genuine dispute between parties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The potential for collusive suits to be <\/span><b>used as a means of circumventing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>normal legislative process.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>In India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>collusive decrees can be set aside<\/b> <b>if <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>party challenging the decree is not a party to it<\/b> <b>and can prove collusion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or fraud.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>High Court<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has the <\/span><b>authority to intervene <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in cases <\/span><b>where a decree is found to be collusive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly under <\/span><b>Article 227.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>A party to a collusive decree cannot seek to have it set aside<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This principle is established in various cases where the courts have ruled that <\/span><b>only parties not involved in the collusion may challenge the decree.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>burden of proving<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that a decree was obtained collusively <\/span><b>lies with the party seeking to set it aside.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Courts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">held that<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under a general prayer for relief, <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">they can set aside a decree if it is found to be collusive, even if a specific prayer for setting aside was not made.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/karnataka\/bengaluru\/supreme-court-takes-suo-motu-cognisance-of-collusive-litigation-by-bda-3662765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collusive Litigation is defined as a lawsuit where the parties involved are not genuinely adversarial, but rather cooperate to achieve a desired outcome. 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