The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a PIL, after observing that the petitioners were raising a personal cause in it.
The grievance raised in the petition is that the petitioners are the owner of the land in question but on the strength of false and fabricated deeds, some third parties have got the land recorded in their names.
The further plea of the petitioners is that they have been deprived of their land on the basis of the frivolous application for mutation.
Though during the course of argument counsel for the petitioners have submitted that such activities are rampant in the State, but the Division Bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj do not find any detailed particulars in this regard.
If the petitioners want to agitate the personal grievance that their lawful title has been infringed by the third parties, then they have a remedy before the appropriate forum where by producing the relevant material, they can establish their right.
“For such a plea the public interest petition cannot be maintained. Hence, the petition is dismissed, however, with liberty to the petitioners to avail such other remedies as are available in law”, the Bench directed.