The Patna High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed for directing the respondent authorities to make enquiry into the misuse of public fund by the ‘Mukhiyas’ relating to different schemes.
The petitioner claims herself to be a Social Worker and is perturbed by the misuse of fund by the ‘Mukhiyas’ in the name of schemes and in furtherance of that claims that the ‘Mukhiyas’ of the Gram Panchayat Aurai, Rajkhand (South), Muzaffarpur are not following the rules and regulations related to the running of the scheme and has thus misappropriated the public fund. She also claims to have approached the Principal Secretary of the Panchayati Raj Department, Bihar, Patna.
From the petition, the Division Bench of Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Rajiv Roy noted that a vague charge has been made on all the ‘Mukhiyas’ of the State inasmuch as neither any detail has been incorporated nor the scheme has been mentioned. None of the ‘Mukhiyas’ are made parties in the writ petition, either in their official or in their personal capacities. In short, the petition is ill prepared.
The Court fails to understand why the petitioner has approached the Patna High Court under Public Interest Litigation for a direction upon the concerned authority to act against the officials in the Gram Panchayat Aurai, Rajkhand (South) for the embezzlement of amount.
The State is fully equipped to check the said irregularity and take the concerned officials under its net. In other words, the State Vigilance Department is fully functional, any person armed with documents can approach the Department alongwith its affidavit and the machinery will automatically start rolling ,said the Court.