(1) Every application for declaring a person as a vexatious litigant, may be filed, either by,—
(a) the Advocate General; or
(b) the person against whom another person has instituted or conducted proceedings, civil or criminal.
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(2) The application referred to in sub-section (1) shall set forth in detail the ground or grounds on which the application for declaring a person as a vexatious litigant is based.
(3) If, on receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the High Court is satisfied that the person referred to in the application has habitually and without any reasonable ground instituted vexatious proceedings, civil or criminal, in any Court or Courts, whether against the same person or against different persons, the High Court may, after hearing that person or giving him an opportunity of being heard, declare that person to bea vexatious litigant.
(4) In the case of an application filed under clause (b) of sub-section (1), the High Court may, if it so desires, also hear the views of the Advocate General on the application.