PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 857 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 857 of 2025 Shakti Singh Awana .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. and 5 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Radha Kant Ojha (Sr. Adv.) with Ratnakar Upadhyay, Dev Kaushik, Devansh Misra, Devesh Pandey, J.P. Pandey Counsel for Respondent(s) : Meenakshi Singh (A.C.S.C.), J.N. Maurya, Avneesh Tripathi, Shabista Parveen, Lal Dev, Anushriya Tripathi, Ashok Nath Tripathi, Kaushalendra Nath Singh, Rakesh Nath Tripathi With PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1263 of 2025 Omveer Singh .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. and 3 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Dev Kaushik, Sanjay Shukla Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Lal Dev Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. These petitions have been filed by the petitioners seeking to question the alleged extraction of ground water for commercial purposes by the respondents-builders. 2. Submissions were made inter alia questioning the action of the respondents in illegally extracting water resulting in depletion of the ground water level. WPIL No. 857 of 2025 2 3. Shor