FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 5 OF 2011 "Vijay s/o. Karbhari Golhar Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. S.S. Choudhary, Advocate holding for Mr. V.M. Chate, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. S.K. Tambe,Assistant Govt. Pleader for respondent No.1 to 3. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & R.M. BORDE, JJ. DATE :- 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] By way of present petition, which is filed in public interest, the petitioners are praying that the Tahsil office at Ashti should not be shifted outside Ashti town i.e. at Survey No.478, which, according to the petitioner, is a green zone. 2] In the affidavit in reply, filed on behalf of the respondent, it is submitted that the existing building was found to be insufficient for the office of tahsildar and as such, a new place was required so that ample parking and other facilities could be provided to the citizens. It is submitted that one lady has gifted philanthropically 8000 square meters of land for the purpose of construction of a new building, the construction is complete and an amount of Rs.143.50 lakhs has already been spent for the construction of the new building. It is further submitted that a additional amount of Rs.13 Lakhs has been sanctioned by the District Planning and Development Council, for its furniture. It is FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 5 OF 2011 "Vijay s/o. Karbhari Golhar Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 further submitted that the existing building was situated at a distance of 600 meters away from the town, whereas, the new building is about 1000 meters away from the town. 3] Taking into consideration the huge expenditure incurred by the State on the construction and the fact that the new building is only 400 meters away from the old building, we are not inclined to entertain the present petition. Entertaining the present petition, at this stage, would be against public interest, rather than serving any public interest, inasmuch as, huge expenditure incurred by the Government would go in waste. We expect the State Government to shift to the new building as expeditiously as possible so that the inconvenience caused to the public at large would be minimized. PIL is, therefore, dismissed. 4] Out of the amount of Rs.50,000/- the petitioner be permitted to withdraw an amount of Rs.40,000/-. Rest of the amount of Rs.10,000/- be transferred to the Library of the High Court Bar Association, Aurangabad. [R.M. BORDE,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-