# PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 334 of 2025 at Lucknow

Court: Allahabad High Court
Date: 2025-04-23
Citation: PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 334 of 2025 at Lucknow
Petitioner: PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 334 of 2025 at Lucknow
Respondent: Unknown

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## Judgment text (excerpt)

1 Reserved Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:23110-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 334 of 2025 Petitioner :- Vikash Chaturvedi Respondent :- Union Of Bharat Thru. Secy. For Law And Justice Shashi Bhawan New Delhi And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Asok Pande Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Gaurav Mehrotra Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava - I,J. [Per Attau Rahman Masoodi, J.] (1) Sri Asok Pande, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri S. B.Pandey, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India assisted by Sri Anand Dwivedi, learned counsel for the Union of India and Sri Gaurav Mehrotra, learned counsel for the respondent No.2 are present. (2) This writ petition filed in public interest on behalf of a practicing lawyer of this Court seeks the reliefs as under:- "(1) Issue a writ of prohibition thereby prohibiting/restraining the Chief Justice of the High Court of Uttar Pradesh from administering the oath of office to Sri Yashwant Varma as a judge of this High Court. (2) Issue a writ of certiorari to quash the notification dated 28/03/2025 issued by respondent union thereby notifying the transfer of Sri Yaswant Verma from

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