Supreme Court Advocate Radhakanta Tripathy enters Limca Book of Records
NEW DELHI: An Advocate of the Supreme Court, Radhakanta Tripathy, has created a national record and entered the Limca Book of Records 2011 edition for filing the maximum number of petitions yet in a single day.
Tripathy filed 703 petitions with two national commissions in a single day. On November 17, 2009, he submitted 409 petitions with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and 294 petitions with National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC).
The petitions were to draw the attention of both the commissions towards the human rights violations like forceful displacement of over 20,000 families from their homes and large scale felling of trees for the river canal Sanskar projects in Bhadrak district of Orissa.
Both the commissions took cognizance of the petitions and initiated action upon them for the great relief of thousands of aggrieved people.
The Limca Book of Records honoured Tripathy with a certificate for the commendable feat that brought him this coveted national record.
Tripathy has been practicing at the apex court since 2003 and filed a number of petitions and public interest litigations in the Supreme Court, in the High Courts of Delhi and Orissa and at all the national commissions, including the National Commission for Women, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes and finally, the National Commission for Minorities.
He even moved the Election Commission, bringing to their notice that young children were being used to carry the ballot boxes, EVM machines etc.
On this, the poll panel had issued notices to all the Chief Secretaries and Chief Electoral Officers in the country.
Tripathy also filed hundreds of RTI applications seeking information on a variety of controversial subjects and was instrumental in getting filled the vacancies in the national commissions which were in limbo, on the directions of the apex court.
NEW DELHI: An Advocate of the Supreme Court, Radhakanta Tripathy, has created a national record and entered the Limca Book of Records 2011 edition for filing the maximum number of petitions yet in a single day.
Tripathy filed 703 petitions with two national commissions in a single day. On November 17, 2009, he submitted 409 petitions with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and 294 petitions with National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC).
The petitions were to draw the attention of both the commissions towards the human rights violations like forceful displacement of over 20,000 families from their homes and large scale felling of trees for the river canal Sanskar projects in Bhadrak district of Orissa.
Both the commissions took cognizance of the petitions and initiated action upon them for the great relief of thousands of aggrieved people.
The Limca Book of Records honoured Tripathy with a certificate for the commendable feat that brought him this coveted national record.
Tripathy has been practicing at the apex court since 2003 and filed a number of petitions and public interest litigations in the Supreme Court, in the High Courts of Delhi and Orissa and at all the national commissions, including the National Commission for Women, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes and finally, the National Commission for Minorities.
He even moved the Election Commission, bringing to their notice that young children were being used to carry the ballot boxes, EVM machines etc.
On this, the poll panel had issued notices to all the Chief Secretaries and Chief Electoral Officers in the country.
Tripathy also filed hundreds of RTI applications seeking information on a variety of controversial subjects and was instrumental in getting filled the vacancies in the national commissions which were in limbo, on the directions of the apex court.
