PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 38172 of 2013 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 38172 of 2013 Shyam Bahadur and 28 others .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. Thru Secy. and 6 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Dharmendra Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Jagdish Pathak (S.C.) Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE ARUN KUMAR, J. 1. This PIL was filed in the year 2013 seeking a direction to the respondents to give benefit of Scholarship/Fee Reimbursement Rules, 2012 ('Rules') to Other Backward Castes candidates entitled for the same including the petitioners pursuant to representation dated 03.05.2013. Further prayer has been made directing the respondents to explain the circumstances on which the petitioners have been deprived from the benefit of the Rules. 2. The petition clearly indicates that the fee deposited by the petitioners have not been reimbursed, which essentially is the grievance made in the petition. 3. The petition is pending since 2013, wherein even counter affidavit has not been filed/notices have not been issued. 4. Today, the petition is listed in the category of 'Oldest pending cases in this High Court, for