PIL in HC

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 08 May 2013 This query is : Resolved
Can a PIL (letter petition) be filed by an individual in the High Court through email?
Can it be based on a local newspaper report? Thanks.

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R.K Nanda (Expert) 08 May 2013
no reply to AQ.

Hemant Agarwal (Expert) 09 May 2013
1. IF a PIL, is based on a law point and is in the larger interest of the Public, THEN a PIL is acceptable even by simple Post card, Letter, Email (on suo-moto) basis, subject to the non-mandatory discretion of the Registrar / Judges of the High Court.

Several other parameters will apply for a PIL

Keep Smiling .... Hemant Agarwal

ajay sethi (Expert) 09 May 2013
we dont reply to academic queries

Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 09 May 2013
academic query.........

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 09 May 2013
Land allotted to poor dalits by Gram Sabha grabbed by concerned officials in Chakbandi process, reports a local Hindi Daily. Matter enough to file a PIL in the interest of SCs?

Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 10 May 2013
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Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 10 May 2013
Then why is there an option ask as anon?

Satya Mani Tiwari (Expert) 11 May 2013
PIL in High court cannot be filed through e- mail.

prabhakar singh (Expert) 11 May 2013
Of late in 2006 PIL was filed by Mr Arun Shirgaonkar who at then was an Indian officer working in Qatar. Mr Shirgaonkar had mailed the PIL to Chief Justice BA Khan about killing of a bear by people in Pulwama district. The captioned e-mail was titled ‘Killing of an innocent bear in Tral’.Shirgaonkar said he and his wife were deeply affected by footage of the incident beamed on TV, sought the court’s intervention in the matter to prevent cruelty against animals. Chief Justice Khan, as he then was, accepted it.

So it all depends on the sensitivity of the issue in feelings of the High COURT.

PIL in HC

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