HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1237 of 2025 Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE JASPREET SINGH, J. 1. This petition in public interest was filed by the petitioner aggrieved of the location of the liquor shop within the prohibited distance of the temple. 2. A Coordinate Bench of this Court noticed on 08.12.2025 regarding the distance of the shop from the temple and required the respondents to take action. 3. Instructions have been produced, inter alia, indicating that the liquor shop in question has been shifted. 4. Counsel for the petitioner attempted to make submissions that shop with indication that the same is on sale still exists. 5. The plea raised in the petition pertains to liquor shop being run in front of temple and not that shop cannot exist there. 6. In view thereof as the liquor shop has been removed from the location, no further orders are required to be passed in the petition. 7. The petition stands disposed of. December 19, 2025 Rakesh/- Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Diwakar Prasad Sharma Counsel for Respondent(s) : Nishant Shukla (A.C.S.C.) (Jaspreet Singh,J.) (Arun Bhansali,CJ.) Rajesh Kumar Singh .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Excise Deptt. Lko and 5 others .....Respondent(s) Digitally signed by :- RAKESH PRAJAPAT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench