Saurabh Shankar Srivastava v. State of U.P. Thru. Its Addl.Chief Secy./Prin.Secy.Housing and Urban Planning Deptt. Lko.and 3 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Maintainability of public interest litigation; PIL described as academic and undertaken in chambers cannot be entertained; challenge after 25 years to Circular dated 08.03.2001 of State of U.P. (Housing and Urban Planning) requiring inclusion of spouse's name in registered transfer documents of allotted property; absence of aggrieved allottees or particulars of implementation; no representation to respondents for reconsideration; dismissal at threshold; Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench; PIL No. 914 of 2025.
What did the court decide?
The petition, filed 25 years after the Circular was notified, lacks facts and particulars as to its implementation and whether any allottee was inconvenienced or deprived of allotment; the exercise is academic, undertaken in the chambers, and a PIL filed only by way of academics cannot be entertained.