- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31084-DB WP No. 23824 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 12TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAMACHANDRA D. HUDDAR WRIT PETITION NO. 23824 OF 2025 (GM-RES-PIL) BETWEEN: 1. MURALI KRISHNA BRAHMANDAM AGE: 69 S/O ANJANEYULU BRAHMANDAM ANNUAL INCOME RS. NIL (0) OCCUPATION: POLITICAL ECONOMIST 42, LAVELLE ROAD BENGALURU - 560 001 …PETITIONER (BY SRI MURALI KRISHNA BRAHMANDAM, PARTY-IN-PERSON) AND: 1. CHIEF SECRETATY TO GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA C/O ALL PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES / SECRETARIES TO GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA ROOM NO. 320, 3RD FLOOR VIDHANA SOUDHA BANGALORE - 560 001 2. ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER Digitally signed by AMBIKA H B Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31084-DB WP No. 23824 of 2025 ROOM NO. 326, 3RD FLOOR VIDHANA SOUDHA BENGALURU - 560 001 3. PRESIDENT KARNATAKA PRADESH CONGRESS COMMITTEE (KPCC) QUEENS RD, GOVINDA CHETTY COLONY SHIVAJI NAGAR BENGALURU, KARNATAKA - 560 051 …RESPONDENTS (SMT. NILOUFER AKBAR, ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT ADVOCATE FOR RESPONDENT NOS.1 AND 2) THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO DIRECT R-1 TO INSTRUCT ALL CONCERNED PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES, SECRETARIES AND SPECIAL SECRETARIES OF THE 34 MINISTRIES AND THEIR 44 DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA TO DISCUSS AND PURPOSE THE KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION BILL, 2025 WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE MINISTRIES FOR ORIGINATION AND INITIATION OF THE BILL AND ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU ,CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAMACHANDRA D. HUDDAR ORAL ORDER (PER: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU,CHIEF JUSTICE) 1. The petitioner has filed the present public interest litigation, inter alia, praying that directions be issued to the Principal - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31084-DB WP No. 23824 of 2025 Secretaries, Secretaries and Special Secretaries of the 34 Ministries and their 44 departments of the Government of Karnataka to discuss and propose "the Karnataka Government Transformation Bill, 2025, which the petitioner has drafted for constitution of committees for establishment of a greater Karnataka Authority for coordinating and supervising the equal development of the Karnataka area and to establish not more than 224 assembly constituency corporations and 28 parliamentary constituency corporations in Karnataka". 2. The present petition is misconceived. The same falls outside the scope of the PIL. The petitioner has not presented any case of violation of constitutional or statutory rights. The relaxation of the requirement of locus standi to enable institution of litigation in public interest litigation, is not for the purposes of enabling litigants to approach this court to vent their ideas however bright they may be. Institution of a PIL is a serious matter. It may be instituted for the purposes of defending and protecting legal rights. - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31084-DB WP No. 23824 of 2025 3. The petition is, accordingly, dismissed with costs quantified at `1,00,000/-. The costs be deposited with the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority. Sd/- (VIBHU BAKHRU) CHIEF JUSTICE Sd/- (RAMACHANDRA D. HUDDAR) JUDGE AHB List No.: 1 Sl No.: 11