Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:115546 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 9755 of 2025 Petitioner :- Vinod Kumar Yadav And 18 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Saurabh Kumar,Suresh Kumar Gupta Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Harshit Pandey Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J. 1. Heard Sri Suresh Kumar Gupta, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Harshit Pandey, learned counsel for the respondent nos.3 and 4. 2. Petitioners are 19 in numbers and have declared that they are residents of District-Mirzapur, still none of the petitioners have time to come to Prayagraj to swear the affidavit filed in support of this writ petition. 3. Deponent of affidavit accompanied in present writ petition is one Rajiv Kumar Yadav and has declared himself to be cousin brother of petitioner no.1. 4. Even in the affidavit there is nothing as to how he being a relative of petitioner no.1 aware of facts of the case of each petitioners. 5. From the above it transpires that it is a proxy litigation and petitioners are not bonafide litigants, therefore, Sri Rajiv Kumar Yadav who has sworn the affidavit shall pay Rs.1 lakh as cost for unnecessary burdening the Court and wasting crucial time of this Court. 6. At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a liberty be granted to file independent writ petitions along with affidavit sworn by respective petitioner only with better particulars. 7. Considering the aforesaid submission, this writ petition is disposed of with aforesaid liberty, but the direction of payment of cost shall be complied with and it shall be paid within three weeks from today in the High Court Bar Association, Prayagraj. Order Date :- 17.7.2025 SB Digitally signed by :- SANDEEP BHATTACHARYA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad