HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR DIVISION BENCH ‘e CORAM: HON’BLE SHRI RAJEEV GUPTA, C.J. & HON’BLE SHRI N.K. AGARWAL, J. . _________________________ w (Em) $§$HII Writ Petition (PIL) (PELNO.894 of 2011 Petitioner Tara Das Manikpuri, S/o Shri Subran Das Manikpuri, aged 26 years, R/o J’arhi Colony, M/Q — 314, Post — Bhatgaon, PS & Tah : Prataappur, District Sarguja (CG) A ‘ VERSUS Respondents ‘ 1. Union of India, through Secretary of Home Affairs, Government of India, North Block, New Deghi 110 001 2. Chle’f Secretary State of Chhattisgarh DKS Bhavan, Mantralaya, Raipur (CG) Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India Present : Shri Devarshi Thakur, counsel for the petitioner. Shri Vivek Shrivastava, Standing counsel for respondent No.1/Union of India ORDER (30m June, 201 1)\ ‘The‘ following order of the Court was passed by Rajeev Gupta, C.J. Learned counsel for the parties are heard on admission. 2? Petitioner Tara Das Manikpuri has filed this writ petition styled as ‘PUblic Interest Litigation’ for the following reliefs : “10.1 The Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to .~\ (i) Quash the létter dated 21 Jan.2011 by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the State of Chhattisgarh; (ii) Restrain the EU Deiegation from being present in Court as “observers”. (iii) Pass any or such or other further orders as it deems fit and proper" ) On due consideration of «the submissions of learned counsel for the parties; the contents of the writ petition including V ‘ the‘grounds urged in the writ petition and the nature of the reliefs olaimed by the petitioner, we are of the opinion that the petition does not deserve to be entertained as ‘Public Interest Litigation’ as the same does not involve any public interest. 4) We, therefore, decline to entertain the writ petition filed by the petitioner as ‘Public Interest Litigation’. 5) The writ petition, therefore, fails and is hereby dismissed summarily. ¥ Sdl— e _ ChieUustige Sdl- N. K- Agarwa}. ‘L l /l L/uE Jde l s l s 3 2