PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 914 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 914 of 2025 Lal Bahadur Patel .....Petitioner(s) Versus Union of India and 6 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Vishal Tandon Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., C.S.C., Pashupati Nath Tripathi, Anurag Khanna (Sr. Adv.) with Sumit Kakkar, Ugrasen Kumar Pandey Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction restraining respondent nos. 4 and 5 from shifting the Branch Office of Indian Bank situated in Gram Sabha Banka Jalalpur, Block Mau Aima, Tehsil Soraon, District Prayagraj from the present location to a different distant location. 2. A plea was raised that the Branch has been shifted to other village and in terms of Section 23 of the Banking Regulations Act, 1949 ('the Act'), without permission of the Reserve Bank of India, the Branch cannot be transferred to another place. 3. It was submitted on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India, based on instructions and Circular dated 18.05.2017 pertaining to Rationalisation of Branch Authorisation Policy - Revision of Guidelines and i