{"id":204606,"date":"2018-11-01T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=204606"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T11:26:10","slug":"karnataka-hc-declines-to-entertain-pil-pertaining-to-encroachments-on-public-roads-holding-that-the-same-required-determination-of-questions-of-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/11\/01\/karnataka-hc-declines-to-entertain-pil-pertaining-to-encroachments-on-public-roads-holding-that-the-same-required-determination-of-questions-of-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka HC declines to entertain PIL pertaining to encroachments on public roads holding that the same required determination of questions of fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Karnataka High Court:<\/strong> A Division bench comprising of Dinesh Maheswari and S.G. Pandit, JJ. while hearing a civil writ petition declined to exercise its jurisdiction under public interest litigation since the petition involved the determination of questions of fact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The instant writ petition was filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India praying to call for records pertaining to the case on hand and seeking a direction against the respondent State to clear the road by removing encroachments made on public roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court, on the day of preliminary hearing, stated that it was not persuaded to entertain the present petition as a public interest litigation (PIL) because though the petition alleged several encroachments on public pathway and roads but none of the alleged encroachers had been impleaded as a party to the said petition, not even in a representative capacity. 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