Vikas Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Urban and Development Lko. and 2 Others
Public Interest Litigation – Maintainability
Case brief
What is this about?
PIL dismissed at hearing for want of maintainability: petitioner Vikas Singh, president of E-Rickshaw Union, Ayodhya, held incapable of maintaining a public interest litigation as he and his union members had personal interest in the cause; liberty left open to aggrieved persons to approach the Court. Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench, Court No. 1, Division Bench of Rajan Roy, J. and Abdesh Kumar Chaudhary, J., PIL No. 204 of 2026, order dated March 10, 2026; respondents: State of U.P. through Principal Secretary, Urban Development, Lucknow and others; counsel: Vidya Kant Sharma for petitioner; C.S.C. and Patanjali Chaturvedi for respondents. Keywords: locus standi, personal interest, PIL maintainability, E-Rickshaw Union Ayodhya.
What did the court decide?
A petitioner who is the president of the E-Rickshaw Union, Ayodhya, and who along with his members has personal interest in the cause raised in the petition, cannot maintain a public interest litigation.