The Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL)  filed  with regard to re-adjustment of the constituency of Phagwara from reserved to general category in the upcoming legislative and general elections in the year 2024 and 2027.

The PIL has been filed by one  Fateh Singh.

The Petitioner has been filed seeking a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to decide his representations dated 03.01.2023  and 04.02.2023 with regard to the same.

Satya Pal Jain, Additional Solicitor General of India, appearing for respondents (Union of India) , states that the petitioner’s representations cannot be decided, at this stage, keeping in view the fact that the Delimitation Commission is competent to decide the issue raised in the present writ petition and the last census report was of 2011 and for the next election the census report has not come till date. 

However, as and when the report comes, the Delimitation Commission will be constituted and the petitioner will have a cause of action at that stage.   

“The writ petition is being disposed of giving liberty to the petitioner to take steps in accordance with law, if so advised, after the fresh census report comes”, the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ritu Bahri and Justice Nidhi Gupta directed.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has recently disposed of a 13-year-old PIL filed seeking the reconstruction of a water tank over a piece of government land after the demolition of construction allegedly raised by private respondents.

The PIL has been filed by one Mohan Rawat, styling himself a public spirited person and resident of village Bairad, District Shivpuri, who approached the High Court through the petition in the form of pro bono public (for the public good).

The Gwalior Division Bench of Justice Rohit Arya and Justice Milind Ramesh Phadke observed the petitioner had come in 2008 and since then over 13 years have passed by.

Now at this distance of time with repeated prayer of the same nature, no indulgence is warranted in the instant public interest litigation, held the Court.

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“However, the petitioner is always free to take recourse to law before appropriate forum, if according to him any illegality has crept in, in the matter of encroachment and construction by the private respondents. With the aforesaid, the writ petition stands disposed of”

-the order reads.