framed thereunder.
It is beyond cavil of doubt that the Public Interest
Litigation has originated since last several decades as an
effective tool to ventilate ... approach the Court. It is never used as the privilege
or a Publicity Interest Litigation which sometimes aimed at
and the Courts of the country
State or national Government."
Advanced Law Lexicon defines 'Public Interest Litigation' as under:
"...the expression 'PIL' means a legal ... basic human rights, benefits and privileges upon the poor, downtrodden and vulnerable sections of the society.
9. Public Interest Litigation means a litigation to espouse
privilege or advantage to any of the parties to the litigation, such right, privilege or advantage might be waived by a party in whose favour
such officer to prevent offences, etc. If therefore, there is a privilege of this nature in India, it must apparently be for all public officers ... held that all documents are privileged which are necessary to the preparation or conduct of litigation provided the proceeding is or is pending before
area
of humanity, is a totally different kind of litigation from the
ordinary traditional litigation which is essentially of an
adversary character where there ... society, this
Court has initiated, encouraged and propelled the public
interest litigation. The litigation is an upshot and product of
this Court's deep
similar cases in terms of the litigation
policy of the State Government. This Court has privilege to go
through the judgment
Kapoor (AIR 1972 SC 2379) that an immunity from a
litigation unless the requisite court fee is paid ... court fee. If a plaintiff seeks
such a special privilege to pursue his litigation, is there
any reason not to insist on his strictly complying
privilege of maintaining a pauper suit is a personal privilege granted to people who have no means of carrying on or continuing litigation. The Consideration ... privilege of maintaining a pauper suit is a personal privilege granted to people who have no means of carrying on or continuing litigation
laid down by the Constitutional Courts does not permit initiation of adversarial litigation in service matters at the instance of a stranger or a busybody ... dutiful citizens and not exploit their privileges of being a lawyer by initiating such malafides litigation.
19. It has been pointed out that earlier
that State B, will that person be entitled to claim the privileges and
benefits admissible to persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes
and/or Scheduled ... Public Interest
Litigation, is that State B denies the benefits and privileges admissible
to such persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
who have