Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 645 · Decided 18 November 2003
Ashok Kumar Pandey v. The State of West Bengal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 645 · [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 716
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 199/2003
- Decided
- 18 November 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Public Interest Litigation: Locus stand.._Petitioner filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court C for conversion of the death sentence to life sentence imposed on the accused as there had been no execution of the death sentence for a long time--Held: There must be a real and genuine public and having sufficient interest in the litigation alone has the locus standi-PIL should be aimed at redressal D of genuine public wrong or public injury and not publicity oriented or founded on personal vendetta-On facts, the petitioner did not have locus standi to file the Pll-Hence, petition
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