HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1997 of 2026 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 direction to ensure that construction of water tanks in various villages is undertaken after following standard operating procedure for construction of water tanks and seeking a fair inquiry into the complaint. 2. The petition inter alia has been filed against respondent no. 5, a contractor. 3. When the matter came up before this Court, looking to the subject matter of the petition, annexures filed along with the petition, a doubt arose qua the credentials of the petitioner who had indicated his occupation as agriculture and the petitioner was directed to disclose his educational standard. 4. Today, a supplementary affidavit has been filed inter alia indicating that the petitioner is 9th pass. 5. From the credentials and educational standard of the petitioner and the nature of petition filed, it is obvious that the petitioner cannot and does not have the understanding pertaining to the subject matter of the petition and essentially he is only a name giver and someone else is behind the filing of the present petition whose intention cannot be bonafide. 6. Faced with the said situation, counsel for the petitioner seeks Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Ashish Kumar Dwivedi, Rashid Ali Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.K. Goyal, A.C.S.C. Manindra Pandey .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and 4 others .....Respondent(s) withdrawal of the petition, the same is, therefore, dismissed with a warning to the petitioner and caution to the counsel. October 1, 2026 nd/AKShukla WPIL No. 1997 of 2026 2 (Kshitij Shailendra, J) (Arun Bhansali, CJ) Digitally signed by :- NISITH DEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad