CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 18588 OF 2007 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. DATE OF DECISION: February 25 , 2011. Parties Name Bodh Raj alias Pappu ...PETITIONER VERSUS State of Punjab and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasbir Singh Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain PRESENT: Mr. Munish Kapila, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Chetan Mittal, Addl. A.G., Punjab Mr. P.K.Goyal, Adv., for Mr. A.R.Takkar, Advocate, for respondent No. 2. Jasbir Singh, J. (oral) JUDGMENT By filing this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking issuance of directions to the respondents asking them to remove encroachments made by various shopkeepers in Jalandhar city. In this writ petition, none of those persons, who were alleged having encroached upon the public place, were made party to the writ petition and furthermore, at the time of arguments, it came to our notice that the petitioner is a shopkeeper in the area of which photographs have been put on record. If that is so, this writ petition cannot be treated as Public Interest Litigation. Furthermore, in the reply, the CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 18588 OF 2007 -2- respondents have said that they will make efforts to remove the encroachments. Otherwise also, as per order passed by this Court in CWP No. 7104 of 1998, drive to remove encroachment is going on against the encroachers in Jalandhar city. In view of above, no further directions are necessary. Dismissed. ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge (Rakesh Kumar Jain) Judge February 25, 2011. DKC