PEOPLES FORUM Vs. C.B. YADAV

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL the four writ petitions before the Court have been filed by an organization described as "People's Forum through its convener Dr. Nutan Thakur, address - 5/426, Viram Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow". The reliefs which are sought in the petitions are briefly described as follows:

(2.) THE Division Bench recorded that the Court was informed that Dr. Nutan Thakur has filed as many as 140 writ petitions styled as 'public interest cases'. Details of those writ petitions were placed on the record of the order that was passed on 11.4.2014. It would be necessary, at this stage, to extract from paragraphs 5 and 6 of the order, which read as follows:

(3.) BY the order of the Division Bench, the Court has directed that the Registry shall not entertain any writ petition in public interest from Dr. Nutan Thakur - either in person or through Counsel (either as petitioner or co -petitioner) unless it is accompanied by a demand draft of Rs. 25,000/ -. The Court also clarified that at the time of admission of the petition, if the Court considers that the petitioner has raised a grievance which is genuine and bona fide and in public interest, the demand draft deposited may be returned but if it is found that the writ petition does not involve any element of public interest and is dismissed, the amount of the demand draft will be treated as costs and will be credited to the account of the Legal Services Committee of the High Court at Lucknow.