1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO.2720 OF 2010 Maruti Shripatrao Gaikwad ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Mah. & ors. ..RESPONDENTS Petitioner in person; Mr S.K. Tambe, A.G.P. for respondents CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND N.D. DESHPANDE,JJ. (Date of reserving the order : 16th June, 2010 Date of pronouncing the order : 17th June, 2010) ORDER ( PER P.V. HARDAS, J.) This is a petition which is filed by the petitioner who claims to have filed it as a public interest litigation. The petitioner makes a grievance about the mass copying which had occurred during the examinations. The petitioner does not state as to how and why he is espousing cause of those students who had been apprehended as having indulged in copying. Procedure is prescribed in respect of the students who are caught using unfair means. Remedy of inquiry, etc. is provided. The petitioner does not claim that those students are unable to approach this Court and, therefore, have requested him to file this public interest litigation. The petitioner prays for directing the Government to conduct an 2 inquiry in respect of the suspended students in the H.S.C. examination and to submit a report to this Court as to what steps have been taken in that regard and also to appoint a Commission or a Court Commissioner to make an inquiry. It appears that the petitioner has got this petition drafted from a Counsel but has chosen to argue it himself, though a request was made by the Court that in case the petitioner was interested, the Court would appoint a Counsel for him at the expense of the State. 2. This petition does not conform to the parameters of a public interest litigation and since the petitioner is not an affected person, there is no merit in the petition and the petition is summarily dismissed with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) ( P.V.HARDAS, J.) amj/wp2720.10