1 ASPIL2.11 srp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 2 OF 2011. Shaikh Mohammed Ali Abdul Rehaman ... Petitioner Vs 1. The State of Maharashtra & 8 Ors. ... Respondents Mr. M.R. Deshpande for the Petitioner. Mrs. J.S. Pawar, Addl. GP for the Respondent Nos.1 to 6. Ms. Naveena Kumai for the Respondent Nos.8 to 9. CORAM : MOHIT SHAH, C.J. & S.J. VAZIFDAR, J. THURSDAY, 03 FEBRUARY, 2011. P.C. : 1. All that the petitioner has challenged in this petition, purporting to be a Public Interest Litigation, is the circular dated 18th August, 2009, of the Controller of Weights & Measures, requiring the dealers and other persons using electronic weighing machines not to use such weighing machines if they are not sealed by the officers of the Controller of Weights & Measures. 2. It is contended that on account of the restrictions imposed by 2 ASPIL2.11 the said circular, there would be lot of hardship to the people at large. 3. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Government Pleader, we find that this petition cannot be treated as a Public Interest Litigation because the petitioner has voiced grievances and hardships to the repairers of weights and measures and not the people at large. 4. It is the submission of the learned Additional Government Pleader that the restrictions have been imposed for the benefit of the consumers so that no tampering of the electronic weighing machines is done by the shopkeepers for fraudulent purposes. 5. Hence we dismiss the petition without going into the merits of the controversy sought to be raised herein. This order shall not come in the way of the petitioner in case he is desirous of filing a Writ Petition for his own private cause. 6. With the above clarification, the petition is dismissed. CHIEF JUSTICE S.J. VAZIFDAR, J.