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Litigative puppetry, the technique of making someone to litigate, while somebody else, who is the real beneficiary of the litigation controls matters from the background. In the instant case workers of coal mines were the writ petititoners, but the court believed that they were actually being used a facade for illicit mine exploiters. [Mahindranath v. State of Bihar, AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1309), para 1]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)