A division bench of the High Court on Tuesday, August 16, took a petitioner to as for filing public interest litigation (PIL) against Karnataka Chief Minister, D V Sadananda Gowda.
The petitioner, Nagalakshmi Bai, had thorugh the petition, sought an action against the CM and BJP MLA, Jeevaraj, allegign that they have been constructing a five-storied buliding illegally in a site allotted by Bangalore Development Authority. The bench remarked that the petitioner had chosen to release press statements on the issue even before the PIL came up for hearing, with the sole aim of gaining publicity.
Prima facie the PIL appears to have been filed with malicious intentions. The Bench said that thousands of building are coming up in the city and that it is clear that they have targeted the CM, backed by the urge to get publicity.
Chief Justice, Justice K S Shekhar said that the authorities have failed to act on the application and they did not find any public interest in the petition filed by them. The Bench also questioned the petitioner as to why she did not explore the remedies of approaching the department and authorities concerned before approaching the court.
The petitioner tried to justify he action by saying that she has been filing PIL's since the last several years. The bench, while adjourning hearing the petition, asked the petitioners to file details of all the PIL's filed by her so far, and their countries, within three weeks.
News Reported by AR for News Vision the Online Newspaper
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