PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 338 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:115838-DB Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 338 of 2025 Petitioner :- Mukesh Singh Respondent :- State of U.P. and 11 others Counsel for Petitioner :- Arun Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C., Rajiv Singh (S.C.), Somya Chaturvedi, Bhupendra Kumar Tripathi, J. N. Maurya, Rakesh Kumar Patel, Sanjay Kumar Singh Hon'ble Arun Bhansali, Chief Justice Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra, J. 1. This petition in public interest has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the respondents to seize the poultry farm of respondent no.12 situated in centre of the populated area and adjacent to the primary school. 2. Instructions were called from the respondents. 3. Learned counsel for the Pollution Control Board made submissions that poultry farms were required to seek consent to operate by circular dated 10.01.2022, however, the same has been stayed by Hon'ble Supreme Court on 28.04.2023. 4. Learned Standing Counsel appearing for the Animal Husbandry Department made submissions that inspection was carried out when the poultry farm was found to be working against the guidelines dated 17.11.2020. At the time of inspecti