PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 158 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:19291-DB Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 158 of 2025 Petitioner :- Murari Lal Pal Respondent :- The Union Of India and 5 others Counsel for Petitioner :- Om Prakash Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- Shashi Prakash Singh, A.S.G.I., Jigyasa Singh, Pranjal Mehrotra, Rajiv Singh (S.C.) Hon'ble Arun Bhansali,Chief Justice Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra,J. 1. This writ petition purportedly in public interest has been filed seeking a direction to the respondents to construct the railway under bridge at the closed railway manned crossing gate (Padri Gate) No.120/120-A, situated in Km. 1134/5-6 in Jhansi - Kanpur Division, between Jhansi - Garhmau, Railway stations. 2. Submissions have been made that the manned railway crossing, came to be closed in the year 2010 on construction of the railway over bridge by the N.H.A.I. There are agricultural fields on both the sides of the railway track, wherein on account of lack of railway under bridge, the live stock, bullock carts and pedestrians as well as the two wheelers, are required to cross the railway track putting the lives of the residents in peril as well as operation of the t