Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:16668-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 258 of 2025 Petitioner :- Lalita Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Panchayat Raj Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Raj Kumar Dwivedi,Dinesh Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri V. P. Nag, learned counsel for the State. 2. The present writ petition, filed in the Public Interest, prays for the reliefs as under :- "(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari to quash the advertisement dated 10.07.2024 by the opposite parties. (ii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus thereby commanding the opposite parties to follow the government order dated 10.08.2007 and 05.08.2019." 3. Shri V. P. Nag, learned counsel for the State has informed that the fair price shop has already been established in the area of Sarsavan, which is situated in Khargapur Ward. Thus, the relief sought in this writ petition against the advertisement is wholly misconceived. 4. Evidently the petitioner does not seem to seek a direction which may serve any public interest. Any challenge to the advertisement whereby fair price shops are established under the public distribution system, is far from serving public interest. Once the shop in the village of Sarsavan has been established, we do not find any surviving cause to the extent within which the petitioner has argued the matter before us. 5. In the circumstances stated above, we decline to entertain the present writ petition in public interest as the advertisement itself has already been acted upon with the establishment of fair price shops serving public interest. 6. The writ petition, being devoid of merit, is dismissed. (A. K. Srivastava-I,J.) (A. R. Masoodi,J.) Order Date :- 24.3.2025 Mahesh Digitally signed by :- MAHESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench