IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (LODGING) NO.72 OF 2009 Shinde Sarjerao Mahadev (PI) ... Petitioner Versus Chief Secretary to Government of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Mumbai and others. ... Respondents Petitioner in person. Mr. R.M. Kadam, Advocate General with Mr. D.A. Nalawade, Government Pleader for the State. CORAM : SWATANTER KUMAR, C.J. & A.M. KHANWILKAR, J. DATED : 31ST JULY, 2009 P.C. Yesterday when the petition had come up for hearing before us, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the State had raised certain objections and in our order, we had also noted that the said question of maintainability is kept open. 2. Today we asked the petitioner to answer the following three questions of the court: i) His personal locus standi to file this petition being a member of the police force (Police Inspector in the Maharashtra Police Force); ii) How the reliefs claimed in the writ petition can be claimed in a Public Interest Litigation and how the Public Interest Litigation was maintainable; and iii) Respondent No.7 has still not been appointed as D.G.P. , Maharashtra. Therefore, the petition, in any case, was premature and unwarranted. At this, the petitioner who appears in person submitted that in order to understand these matters and to answer them, the questions be translated and explained to him in Marathi language. This request, we find to be very strange as besides being a member of the police force, the petitioner is LLM and is expected to be well familiar with law and English language as well. 3. We are unable to appreciate the attitude adopted by the petitioner. However, after some time, he expressed his desire to withdraw the petition unconditionally. In our opinion, this petition is an abuse of process of law particularly, the concept of Public Interest Litigation. Be that as it may, we leave the matter as that and dismiss the petition as withdrawn unconditionally. Ordered accordingly. CHIEF JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR, J.