PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 1285 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1285 of 2025 Prakash .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue U.P. Lko. And 11 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Shravan Kumar, Ajeet Kumar Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Tanmay Krishna Srivastava Court No. - 17 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Shravan Kumar Singh, the learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Rahul Shukla, the learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State of U.P. and Sri Tanmay Krishna Srivastava, the learned counsel for the opposite party no. 7. 2. By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has sought issuance of a direction for removal of encroachment from public utility land bearing Gata No. 322 situated at Village Farhadpur, Hasanganj, District Unnao which is recorded as Rasta/ public way in the revenue record. 3. Initially the learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel has submitted on the basis of instructions provided by the Executive Engineer, Construction Division-I, Public Works Department, that the encroachers were directed to remove the encroachment within three days. In spite of this fact, a