Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P. and 4 Others
Public Interest Litigation – maintainability – suppression of material facts
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court, Division Bench (Arun Bhansali, CJ and Kshitij Shailendra, J), by order dated 13.8.2025 in Public Interest Litigation (PIL) No. 91 of 2025 (Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P. and 4 others), dismissed at threshold a PIL seeking removal of alleged encroachment, holding that non-disclosure of the inter se dispute and cross FIRs between the petitioner's family and respondent No. 5's family over agricultural fields amounted to lack of disclosure of credentials. Keywords: PIL maintainability, suppression/non-disclosure of facts, credentials, encroachment, cross FIR, agricultural land dispute, Uttar Pradesh, dismissal.
What did the court decide?
For lack of disclosure of credentials, the Court found no reason to entertain the petition and dismissed it. ¶¶10