The bench observed that PIL No. 23 of 2014, filed as a Civil Public Interest Litigation, required conversion to a Criminal PIL. Petitioners were granted liberty to file a conversion application within one week.
Liberty granted to convert the present Civil PIL into Criminal PIL to be filed within one week.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION
PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.23 OF 2014
Aam Admi Party and others ..Petitioners Versus State of Maharashtra and others ..Respondents
Ms. Gayatri Singh I/by Mr. Vijay Hiremath, Advocate for the Petitioners. Ms. Geeta Shastri, AGP for Respondent Nos.1 & 2. Mr. Advait M. Sethna a/w Mr. D. P. Singh, Advocate for Respondent No.4 – UOI.
Mr. Prasad Dhakephalkar, Senior Counsel a/w Mr. Sajal Yadav & Ms. Vineetha Khandelwal, Advocate for Respondent Nos.6 & 21.
Mr. S. K. Saxena, Advocate for Respondent Nos.7, 8 & 17. Mr. Karan Vyas, Advocate for Respondent Nos.9, 10 & 15. Mr. Sudarshan Khawase (Naik), Advocate for Respondent Nos.12, 13 & 14.
Mr. R. S. Apte, Senior Counsel a/w Mr. Aniruddha A. Garge, Advocate for Respondent No.18.
CORAM : B. R. GAVAI & M. S. KARNIK, JJ. DATE : 9th OCTOBER, 2018
P.C.
From the prayer clauses made in the Petition, it would reveal that present Petition is wrongly filed as Civil Public Interest Litigation. The prayer clauses would reveal that at the most, it could
be Criminal Public Interest Litigation. Liberty is therefore granted to
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the Petitioners to covert the present Civil Public Interest Litigation into Criminal Public Interest Litigation. Learned counsel for the Petitioners to take necessary steps within a period of one week from today. Matter be placed before the appropriate bench.
Balaji Govindrao Panchal
Digitally signed by Balaji Govindrao Panchal Date: 2018.10.12 10:51:51 +0530
[M. S. KARNIK, J.]
[B. R. GAVAI, J.]
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Aam Admi Party and others
State of Maharashtra and others
B. R. Gavai
M. S. Karnik
As recorded by the court registry
Litigation brought on behalf of the public interest rather than a personal grievance, relaxing the usual rule of locus standi.
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