Supreme Court of India

Janta Dal Etc. Etc. v. H.S. Chowdhary and Ors. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [1992] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 226

Bench S. Ratnavel Pandian J.

Decided 28 August 1992

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the petitions cannot be rejected merely on the ground that the petitioners who are lawyers have no locus standi to file these petitions.

Judgment, page 51

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Sections 397, 401, 482--Revisional and inherent powers of High Court-Scope and ambit of-Single Judge of High Court-Assumption of suo motu jurisdiction to quash FIR in Bofors case-Legality of Constitution of India, 1950: Article 32-l'IL-Definition, concept and purpose of-''Public interest", "litigation''-Construction-f'arameters for enter taining PIL-Whether possible to lay down-Locus standi of a pany-lmpor tance of-Locus standi in private action and PIL-Difference of-Petitions.in the garo of PIL by persons interested-Maintainability of Words and Phrases:

Authorities it was built on

1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India cited by 127
1984 A.R. Antulay v. Ramdas Sriniwas Nayak and Another cited by 33
1987 Sachidananda Pandey v. State of West Bengal & Ors. cited by 13
1958 Talab Haji Hussain v. Madhukar Purshottam Mondkar and Another cited by 13
1988 Ramsharan Autyanuprasi & Anr v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 8
1963 Dr. Raghubir Sharan v. The State of Bihar cited by 7
1990 Chhetriya Pardushan Mukti Sangharsh Samiti v. State of U.p and Ors. cited by 6
1976 Mumbai Kamgar Sabha, Bombay v. M/s Abdulbhai Faizullabhai & Ors. cited by 3
1966 Pampapathy v. State of Mysore cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2019 Moons Technologies Ltd. (formerly Known as Financial Technologies India Ltd.) & Ors. v. Union of India relied on
2016 Ramesh Rajagopal v. Devi Polymers Private Limited relied on
2015 State, Rep. by Inspector of Police Central Crime Branch v. R. Vasanthi Stanley &anr. relied on
2011 State of Punjab v. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar & Ors. Etc relied on
2011 Padal Venkata Rama Reddy @ Ramu v. Kowuri Satyanarayana Reddy and Ors. relied on
2008 Gorige Pentaiah v. State of A.P. & Ors. relied on
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2018 V. Ravi Kumar v. State, Rep. by Inspector of Police, District Crime Branch, Salem, Tamil Nadu & Ors. referred to
2018 Swaraj Abhiyan and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2013 Dr. Subramanian Swamy and Ors. v. Raju, through Member, Juvenile Justice Board and Anr. referred to
2013 Arun Bhandari v. State of U.P. and Others referred to
2012 Kishore Samrite v. State of U.P. & Ors. referred to
2012 Gian Singh v. State of Punjab & Another referred to
2011 Sushil Suri v. C.b.i & Anr. referred to
2023 Y. Balaji v. Karthik Desari & Anr. Etc. not applicable

Of those, 6 relied on · 8 referred to · 1 not applicable

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