Calcutta High CourtWPA/29108/2022dismissed

Ankur Sharma v. Union Of India And ORS.

2023-03-20Hon'Ble Justice Rajasekhar Mantha2 pages

20-03-2023 ct no. 13 sl. 6 sp WPA 29108 of 2022 Ankur Sharma -VersusUnion of India & Ors.

Mr. Sandipan Das ...for the petitioner Mr. Asok Kumar Chakrabarti, ld. ASG Ms. Susmita Saha ...for the respondent nos. 1 to 4 Mr. Subhabrata Datta, ld. Sr. Govt. Adv.

Mr. Debashis Sarkar ...for the State Mr. Arun Samanta ...for the respondent nos. 8 to 11 Mr. Sabyasachi Chatterjee ..for the respondent no.29 The petitioner's locus for maintaining the writ petition is seriously questioned. The petitioner seeks to espouse the cause of the in-laws of the respondent no.29 without in any way being related or affected.

The writ petition shall stand dismissed for want of locus standi.

The question whether the petitioner can institute a PIL on the self-same subject or the merits of the claim, have not been gone into.

There shall be no order as to costs.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

(Rajasekhar Mantha, J.)