Supreme Court of India

Ashok Kumar Pandey v. The State of West Bengal and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 716

Bench Doraiswamy Raju Andarijitpasayat J.

Decided 18 November 2003

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly they loose faith in the administration of our judicial system.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Public Interest Litigation: Locus stand.._Petitioner filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court for conversion of the death sentence to life sentence imposed on the accused as there had been no execution of the death sentence for a long time--Held: There must be a real and genuine public interest involved in a Public Interest litigation (PIL)- person acting bona fide and having sufficient interest in the litigation alone has the locus standi-PIL should be aimed at redressal of genuine public wrong or public injury and not publicity oriented or founded on personal vendetta-On facts, the

Authorities it was built on

1989 Smt. Triveniben & -ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors. cited by 42
1988 Ramsharan Autyanuprasi & Anr v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 8
1990 Chhetriya Pardushan Mukti Sangharsh Samiti v. State of U.p and Ors. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

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2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2022 State of Jharkhand v. Shiv Shankar Sharma and Ors. referred to
2018 Romila Thapar and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2018 Swaraj Abhiyan and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2013 Central Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha v. Dhobei Sahoo & Ors. referred to
2013 State of Punjab v. Saul Sabhlok and Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 8 referred to

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