The Allahabad High Court while dismissing the petition said that it is for the Nagar Palika Parishad to decide where someone’s statue should be installed. The High Court does not interfere in such matters.
The Division Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Ashutosh Tiwari.
The petition has been filed challenging a resolution passed by the Nagar Palika Parishad, Deoria, dated 21.10.2022 resiling the previous resolution dated 21.12.2019 in respect of installation of a statue of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the auditorium town hall.
Which statue is to be installed by the local authority at which place is ordinarily not a matter of concern wherein the Court should interfere. Such issues are best left to be decided by the Nagar Palika Parishad itself, the Court said.
“Petitioner otherwise is neither a member of Nagar Palika Parishad nor any of his individual rights are otherwise shown to be infringed. The petition is also not filed in public interest. In that view of the matter, we refuse to interfere in the petition”, the Court observed while dismissing the petition.