The Patna High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed with a prayer to direct the respondent, District Magistrate, Jamui, to send proposal for identifying the sufficient land available in village-Gokhula, within Panchayat Raj, Gokhula, Fatehpur under Sikandra block in the district of Jamui.
Further, the petitioner wants the State Government to carry out the construction of the said Panchayat Bhawan on the land so identified.
The contention of the petitioner is that both the ‘Mukhiya’ and the Circle Officer, Sikandra, Jamui have marked a place under mauja Gokhula, Fatehpur which is not good for Panchayat Raj Bhawan. In sum and substance, the petitioner has tried to convince the Court that the land chosen by the Circle Officer, Sikandra, Jamui as also the ‘Mukhiya’ for construction of Panchayat Bhawan is not suitable for the common people.
The Circle Officer, Sikandra earmarked a land for the construction of Panchayat Bhawan which ultimately would have been approved by the highest authority of the district, the District Magistrate, Jamui and as such the decision so taken needs no interference. A Panchayat Bhawan cannot be constructed according to the convenience of a single individual and/or handful of the people.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Rajiv Roy do not see any merit in the present Public Interest Litigation, the same is misconceived and is accordingly dismissed by the High Court.