PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 750 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:53692-DB Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 750 of 2025 Petitioner :- Himanshu Kushwaha and 4 others Respondent :- State of U.P. and 5 others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vishnu Pandey, Shashank Dubey Counsel for Respondent :- A.K. Goyal (A.C.S.C.) Hon'ble Arun Bhansali, Chief Justice Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra, J. 1. This petition has been filed by the lawyers of Ghaziabad District inter alia seeking a direction to respondents no. 5 and 6 to register and issue the marriage certificates to adult married couples of the country residing outside District Ghaziabad where marriages have been solemnised within District Ghaziabad, as per the Uttar Pradesh Marriage Registration Rules, 2017 (for short 'the Rules'). 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners made submissions that the clients who are approaching the petitioners, for the purpose of getting their marriages registered, on account of the action of the respondents, are being deprived of getting the same registered, which is contrary to the provisions of the Rules. 3. The petition, which has been purportedly filed as public interest litigation, at the instance of the petiti