PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 1648 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1648 of 2025 Adeeba Abbasi and 6 others .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of Uttar Pradesh and 10 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Prabal Pratap Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Satyajit Mukerji, A.K. Goyal (A.C.S.C.), Vibhu Rai, Manoj Kumar Singh Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. Mr. Charlie Prakash and Mr. Prabal Pratap have filed Vakalatnama on behalf of the petitioners, which is taken on record. 2. This petition has been filed seeking a direction to the respondents to hold a high level independent, impartial and transparent enquiry into the failure to implement the provisions of Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 ('the Rules') and direction to the Chief Medical Officer to ensure segregation of bio-medical waste into their respective coloured bins and proper distribution of gloves, gumboots, mask, apparent/gown, helmet in hospitals, nursing homes and disposal centre. Further prayer has been made to impose heavy costs on the respondents on their failure to implement the provisions of the Rules. 3. Learned counsel for t