Jay Jay Ram v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue Lko. and 7 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
PIL dismissed; model fair price shop site selection; competing gift offers of land (petitioner Jay Jay Ram vs Smt. Krishna Devi); competent authority's location assessment under Government Order upheld; no interference warranted where both parcels offered as gift; counsel: Mohammad Talib Khan (petitioner), C.S.C., Dilip Kumar Pandey, Ms. Isha Mittal ACSC (State); bench: Attau Rahman Masoodi, J. and Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I, J.; order dated 26.5.2025; neutral citation 2025:AHC-LKO:31232-DB; Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench.
What did the court decide?
All relevant considerations of location had been looked into by the competent authority, leaving no scope for the Court to adjudicate the issue in a PIL instituted by a person who himself owns the rival property he wishes to gift to the State. ¶7