Aam Admi Party And 3 ORS. v. The State Of Maharashtra And 20 ORS

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.23 OF 2014 Aam Admi Party and others ..Petitioners

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State of Maharashtra and others ..Respondents Ms. Gayatri Singh I/by Mr. Vijay Hiremath, Advocate for the Petitioners.

Ms. Geeta Shastri, AGP for Respondent Nos.1 & 2. Mr. Advait M. Sethna a/w Mr. D. P. Singh, Advocate for Respondent No.4 - UOI.

Mr. Prasad Dhakephalkar, Senior Counsel a/w Mr. Sajal Yadav & Ms. Vineetha Khandelwal, Advocate for Respondent Nos.6 & 21.

Mr. S. K. Saxena, Advocate for Respondent Nos.7, 8 & 17. Mr. Karan Vyas, Advocate for Respondent Nos.9, 10 & 15. Mr. Sudarshan Khawase (Naik), Advocate for Respondent Nos.12, 13 & 14.

Mr. R. S. Apte, Senior Counsel a/w Mr. Aniruddha A. Garge, Advocate for Respondent No.18.

CORAM : B. R. GAVAI & M. S. KARNIK, JJ.

DATE : 9th OCTOBER, 2018 P.C.

From the prayer clauses made in the Petition, it would reveal that present Petition is wrongly filed as Civil Public Interest Litigation. The prayer clauses would reveal that at the most, it could be Criminal Public Interest Litigation. Liberty is therefore granted to BGP. 1 of 2

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the Petitioners to covert the present Civil Public Interest Litigation into Criminal Public Interest Litigation. Learned counsel for the Petitioners to take necessary steps within a period of one week from today. Matter be placed before the appropriate bench. Balaji Govindrao Panchal Balaji Govindrao Panchal Date: 2018.10.12 10:51:51 +0530 [M. S. KARNIK, J.] [B. R. GAVAI, J.] BGP. 2 of 2