KALU RAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner Kalu Ram in his capacity as a social worker of Village Vijaypura, has filed this petition as a public interest litigation under Article 226 of the Constitution and challenged the impugned judgment and order dated 16. 3. 1998 (Annex. 1) passed by learned District Collector, Rajsamand dismissing the revision petition filed by the State for cancellation of the patta issued in favour of the private respondents.

(2.) WHEN the State of Rajasthan had filed revision petition before the District Collector and the same was dismissed, then in our considered opinion, if at all any one was aggrieved, then it was the State who should have come in the writ petition before this Court against the impugned order at Annex. 1. WHEN the present petitioner was nowhere in the picture before the District Collector in the revision petition, then merely because the revision petition filed by the State was dismissed, he had no right to challenge the same as a public interest litigation. Thus, he has no locus standi to challenge the same.

(3.) INTERIM relief, if any, granted earlier stands vacated forthwith. .