Manzar Ali v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Housing and Urban Planning Lko. and 8 Others
Public Interest Litigation – maintainability/bona fides of petitioner
Case brief
What is this about?
Manzar Ali v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Housing And Urban Planning Lko. And 8 Others, PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 1005 of 2024, decided 23.11.2024 by Arun Bhansali, CJ and Jaspreet Singh, J., High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench (Neutral Citation 2024:AHC-LKO:77533-DB). Search terms: PIL dismissed at threshold; bona fides of PIL petitioner; conflicting averments — social worker vs private job vs battery rickshaw operator; affidavit contents not explained to deponent; petition allegedly filed at behest of someone else; misuse of PIL jurisdiction; victimisation/harassment allegations (Annexures-4 and 8); vakalatnama of respondent no.2. Outcome: petition dismissed; no relief, no costs, no quantum; no statutes or case law cited.
What did the court decide?
The Court firmly opined that the petition, though filed in the name of the petitioner, cannot and has not been filed by the petitioner (the claimed deponent of the affidavit), and was apparently filed at the behest of someone else.