Rajendranath Parasnath Pandey and Anr. v. the State of Maharashtra Thr Its Chief Secretary and Ors.
Public Interest Litigation – maintainability
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Public Interest Litigation No. 128 of 2025, Rajendranath Parasnath Pandey & Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors., decided 6 April 2026 by Shree Chandrashekhar, CJ. and Gautam A. Ankhad, J. PIL dismissed for non-compliance with Rules 5 and 7 of the Bombay High Court Public Interest Litigation Rules, 2010, absence of any description of social work by petitioners, and being a targeted attack on respondent no. 6. Subject matter: alleged encroachment and unauthorised construction on Gurcharan land in Survey No. 13/A, village Netivali, Taluka Kalyan, District Thane; petitioner no. 1 is Reporter, Editor and Publisher of weekly newspaper 'Jagruk Crime Times'. No cases cited, no amounts, no impugned order.
What did the court decide?
The Public Interest Litigation does not comply with Rules 5 and 7 of the Bombay High Court Public Interest Litigation Rules, 2010, and the petitioners nowhere provided any description of the social work undertaken by them.