PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 425 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:25016-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 425 of 2025 Petitioner :- Prabhat Srivastava Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Basic Education Lko. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Amar Nath Dubey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Ran Vijay Singh Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Vakalatnama filed today by Ms. Anamika Singh, Advocate on behalf of respondent no.6 is taken on record. 2. Heard Sri Amar Nath Dubey, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned standing counsel for the State, Sri Ran Vijay Singh, learned counsel for respondent nos.4 and 5, and Ms. Anamika Singh, learned counsel for respondent no. 6. 3. This writ petition filed in public interest prays for a direction to respondent nos.1 to 5 to restrain respondent no. 6 from running a Basic Education School which, according to the petitioner, has been established in contravention of Section 18 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as "Act, 2009"). 4. In paragraph no. 11 of the writ petition, the petitioner has stated that Section 18 of Act, 2009