JUDGMENT

S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN, J.—The above special leave petition is preferred by the petitioners of whom petitioners 1 to 16 are members of the Legislative Assembly of Haryana and petitioners 17 to 19 are members of the Parliament. They all jointly filed a Civil Petition No. 14500 of 1991 under Article 226 of the Constitution of India before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh seeking various reliefs, the main of which being to direct an investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation against Ch.Bhajan Lal on the basis of FIR No. 372 of 1987 of Sadar Police Station, registered on the complaint of Dharam Pal, making serious allegations of corruption, misuse of authority etc. and for setting aside the order of the Magistrate discharging the accused, Ch. Bhajan Lal.

2. The High Court dismissed the petition by a brief order without going into the locus standi of the petitioners. The relevant portion of the impugned order is as follows:

"3. The reasons disclosed in the writ petition and canvassed by the learned counsel for the petitioners broadly are, that respondent 2 being in the helm of affairs of State, there is a reasonable apprehension in the minds of the people that