PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 542 of 2025 at Allahabad

AFR HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 542 of 2025 Girja Shankar …..Petitioners(s) Versus State of U.P. and 3 …..Respondents(s) others Counsel for Petitioners(s) : Azad Khan Counsel for Respondent(s) : Rajiv Singh, S.C., Chandan Sharma, Shubham Tripathi Chief Justice Court 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 respondent authorities to stop Commercial Mela being organised within the premises of Brahmanand Degree College (Government aided College) at Rath, District Hamirpur, as the same is meant for imparting education. 2. It is stated in the petition that the said degree college being affiliated to Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, is a Government aided institution imparting education in the form of various degree courses and other professional courses and since last year, a Commercial Mela is being organised in the entire open ground of the said college at the instance of respondent no. 4, i.e. the Principal of the institution. It is further stated that this year also, Mela is being organised since 17.01.2025 at a ver