PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 475 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:31896-DB Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 475 of 2025 Petitioner :- Balendu Prasad Ojha Respondent :- State of U.P. and 4 others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ankit Shukla, Rajeev Ratan Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- Seema Agarwal (S.C.) Hon'ble Arun Bhansali,Chief Justice Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra,J. 1. This petition, purportedly in public interest, has been filed, inter alia, seeking enquiry against one Sunil Kumar Pandey, Assistant Development Officer (Cooperative), Gorakhpur and further prayer has been made that the investigation should be done after his transfer from the present place of posting. 2. A perusal of the petition indicates that allegations have been made against the said Sunil Kumar Pandey, however, he has not been impleaded as a party to the present petition. The reason indicated by the learned counsel is that he is a private party and, therefore, need not be impleaded. 3. Irrespective of the fact that the party is private, once a relief is being sought and allegations are being made against some one, he needs to be impleaded as party, in absence whereof the petition is bad for non-joinder of the n