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Fishing Expedition

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

fishing expedition


1 : an inquiry (as by the use of discovery) that is unnecessarily extensive or unrelated to the lawsuit
2 : an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence




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