HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 2712 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 petitioner seeking to question the validity of fisheries lease granted in favour of respondent no.6 on 30.10.2021. 2. A perusal of the writ petition as well as the order dated 23.06.2025 passed by the Additional District Magistrate (Administration), Azamgarh reveals that the petitioner apparently has personal grievance qua the allotment which was made in the year 2021 as he filed proceedings in the year 2023 alleging that on account of the operations undertaken by respondent no.6 for the fisheries purposes, his father's school, which is next to the leased area, is getting affected, based on which he challenged the grant of lease. The Additional District Magistrate found that there was no substance in the challenge laid to the grant of lease to respondent no.6 and consequently dismissed the same. 3. Filing of a PIL, once the competent authority has decided the matter and claiming the same in public interest wherein personal interest of the petitioner i.e. the location of the leased tank being close to his father's school is writ large on record, cannot be countenanced. 4. We do not find any reason to entertain the present petition. The same is Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Pankaj Kumar Rai, Sandeep Maniji Bakhshi Counsel for Respondent(s) : Seema Agarwal (S.C.), Rameshwar Prasad Shukla Sachidanand Vishwakarma .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and 8 others .....Respondent(s) therefore, dismissed. 5. The petitioner will be free to take appropriate remedy in accordance with law. September 17, 2025 AHA/Sazia WPIL No. 2712 of 2025 2 (Kshitij Shailendra, J.) (Arun Bhansali, CJ.) Digitally signed by :- AFZAL HUSAIN ABBASI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad