The Patna High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking direction upon the respondents to ensure construction of school buildings, class rooms, play-grounds, libraries, toilets, drinking water facilities, electricity facilities, science laboratories and other necessary infrastructure required for running a model school.
Various resolutions of the State Government have been referred to in order to strengthen the submissions put forth before the Court.
It is submitted that despite all the aforesaid resolutions, the state machinery has completely failed to provide proper infrastructure to the schools, which is the need of the hour.
It has further been contended that the petitioner made several representations before all the authorities concerned, but the progress in this regard is still not up to the mark.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Harish Kumar noted that identical petitions by way of public interest litigation are being filed repeatedly before the Court, burdening the docket and the Court is pained to observe that the same is being filed without any sincere efforts or verification of the necessary facts as also lacking genuine public interest.
Identical petitions are pending before the Supreme Court as well as the Court where proper monitoring is being done and if the petitioner still has any grievance, he should haveintervened in the matter, if he is genuinely interested to extend assistance.
“This Court deprecates multifarious litigation on one issue, which is already being monitored by the Courts. In that view of the matter, it would not only be inequitable to proceed with the same, since it would lead to multiple orders, resulting into stalling the progress. The present writ petition stands dismissed”, the order reads.