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Kishor Nanaji Karhade v. State of Maha., Thr. Principal Secy., Tribal Dev. Dept., Mumbai and Ors.
Bombay HCWP/2307/2025
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Journalist-petitioner (Gadchiroli); allegations of mismanagement and misappropriation in paddy procurement at minimum support price; petition not entertained for want of locus; liberty to seek conversion of petition into Public Interest Litigation with fresh pleadings; office to verify PIL jurisdiction; respondents include State of Maharashtra, Tribal Development Department; Nagpur Bench, Bombay High Court; order dated 28-04-2025.
What did the court decide?
No substantive relief; petition not entertained on account of the petitioner's locus, with liberty indicated for the petitioner to submit pleadings proposing treatment of the petition as a Public Interest Litigation, to be verified by the office and placed before the Court. ¶15