Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:18556 Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 31456 of 2019 Petitioner :- Prateek Shukla Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Prateek Shukla,Vijeta Singh Counsel for Respondent :- Anubhav Singh,C.S.C.,Divakar Rai Sharma,Rijwan Ali Akhtar,Rohan Gupta Hon'ble Saral Srivastava,J. 1. Heard Sri Satyam Mishra, Advocate bearing Advocate Roll No.A/S 0230/2023 holding brief of Sri Prateek Shukla, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for respondent no.1 and Sri Pranay Kumar, Advocate holding brief of Sri Rohan Gupta, learned counsel for respondent no.4. 2. The petitioner by means of the present writ petition has sought a mandamus commanding the Respondent nos.1, 3 & 5 to take strict action against Respondent no.2 by taking sound action so that no other student/candidate may be cheated by the Respondent no.2. 3. At the very outset, learned counsel for the respondent submits that the prayer made in the writ petition can only be raised in Public Interest Litigation, and therefore, the present writ petition is not maintainable. 4. Since, the present writ petition is not in the form of Public Interest Litigation, therefore, the present writ petition is misconceived, and is accordingly, dismissed. Order Date :- 7.2.2025/NS Digitally signed by :- NITIN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad