However, such relaxation, in our considered opinion, will not mean that any person or any stranger who is not a party to the suit can be permitted to challenge the proceedings of a civil suit by instituting Public Interest Litigation. The matter pending before the Civil Court is primarily between the plaintiff and the defendant, who, in this case, is the respondent-Corporation. The petitioner in the capacity of a former Councilor, in our opinion, does not have any locus either to challenge the proceedings of the suit or the orders passed by the learned civil court. If there is any legal flaw or illegality or irregularity in entertaining the suit filed before the learned civil court by the respondent no.4, it is for the defendant in the said suit i.e., the respondent-Corporation to take out appropriate proceedings, however, the petitioner cannot be permitted to challenge the said proceedings, that too, by filing a Public Interest Litigation. The relaxation to rule of locus for entertaining a Public Interest Litigation cannot be stretched to the extent of permitting a person, who is a stranger to the proceedings of a suit, to challenge the order passed in the suit or to challenge the proceedings of the suit itself by instituting Public Interest Litigation.
