HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 2991 of 2025 Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. This petition, purportedly in public interest, has been filed by the petitioners seeking quashing of the order dated 20.04.2010 passed by the Joint Director of Education, Varanasi Region, Region permitting the respondent no. 12 to lease out properties of the college in question. 2. Further prayer has been made seeking scraping of the management of the college and to restore all the properties of the college, appoint an Authorized Controller to manage the affairs of the college, declare all the lease deeds as void documents and all the shops leased out be restored back to the college. 3. Further prayer has been made that the Vice Chancellor of the University be directed to take appropriate action against respondent no. 12 under Sections 57 and 58 of the U.P. State Universities Act, 1973 and respondent no. 18 be directed to register a case against respondent no. 12 for purchase of properties at Allahpur, Jhunsi and Chitrakoot etc. 4. A perusal of the reliefs claimed and the record of the petition indicates that the petitioners, who claim themselves to be public spirited people wherein petitioner no. 1 is a newspaper Reporter, petitioner no. 2 is an Advocate, petitioner no. 3 is a student and petitioner no. 4 is a Law Graduate preparing for Judicial Service Examination, and the various pleas which have been sought to be raised, starting from the year 2010 seeking relief against various private individuals in the nature of quashing Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Santosh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent(s) : Ankit Gaur, S.C., Sikandar B. Kochar, Sushant Anand Singh and 3 others .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and 17 others .....Respondent(s) of the transfers/letting out in their favour, would require leading of evidence and such activity possibly cannot be undertaken while dealing with the petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. 5. Consequently, the petition, as filed in the nature of Public Interest Litigation, cannot be entertained. The same is, therefore, dismissed leaving it open for the petitioners to take appropriate proceedings in accordance with law. October 15, 2025 Sandeep/AKShukla WPIL No. 2991 of 2025 2 (Kshitij Shailendra,J.) (Arun Bhansali,CJ.) Digitally signed by :- SANDEEP KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad