HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 151 of 2009 (PIL) Basant Pandey & others ……..Petitioners Versus Principal Secretary & others …….Respondents Mr. Ajay Veer Pundir, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. K.P. Upadhyay, Addl. C.S.C. for the State/ respondent nos.1 & 2. Mr. D.S. Patni, Advocate for the respondent no.5. Mr. V.K. Kohli, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. I.P. Kohli, Advocate for the respondent no.7. Mr. V.B.S. Negi, Asstt. Solicitor General for Union of India/ respondent no.8. Dated: January 4, 2011 Coram: Hon’ble Barin Ghosh, C.J. Hon’ble V.K. Bist, J. Barin Ghosh,C.J. (Oral) It appears to us that the petitioners somehow managed to get a copy of the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) dated 31st October, 2007 and promptly thereafter filed the present writ petition with the sole object of wasting Court’s time. Ostensibly, this writ petition is to ensure that people get benefit of the National Rehabilitation & Settlement Policy, 2007 published in the said Gazette. However, the basic ingredients, which were required to be alleged for the purpose of enabling this Court to gather whether the said policy has or has not been given effect to by the State Government, have not been furnished in the writ petition. It has not been stated in the petition, which Hydroelectric Project dislodged which denizen of the locality and if so, to what extent? It has not been stated that, while those people were dislodged, their interests as protected by the said Policy were not taken note of. We, accordingly, feel that the 2 petitioners did not discharge their obligations in relation to a litigation of this nature. They did not do any groundwork, which was required to be done by public- spirited people for presenting a Public Interest Litigation before a Court. We, accordingly, close the matter preserving the liberty of the petitioners, if they are so advised, but after discharging their obligations pertaining to a Public Interest Litigation, to re-approach this Court. (V.K. Bist, J.) (Barin Ghosh, C.J.) 04.01.2011 NCM: