2016 Supreme(SC) 1386
T. S. THAKUR, A. K. SIKRI, R. BANUMATHI
State of U. P. – Appellant
Versus
All U. P. Consumer Protection Bar Association – Respondent
Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Gaurav Dhingra, V.N. Raghupathy, Advocates.
For the Respondents (Union of India):Maninder Singh, ASG, Ms. Niranjana Singh, S. Wasim Quadri, Ms. Gargi Khanna, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Advocates.
For the Ministry of Urban Development :Tushar Mehta, K. Radhakrishnan, Sr.Adv., Gaurav Sharma, Zaid Ali, D.S. Mahra, Ms. Sushma Suri, P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. (A.C.), Tushar Bakshi, Ms. Natasha Vinayak, Archit Uphadhyay, Ms. Nikhar Berry, M.P.S. Tomar, Jabar Singh, Advocates.
For the State of Sikkim :Ms. Arun Mathur,Yusuf Khan, Ms. Anuradha Arputham, M/s Arputham Aruna & Co. Advocates.
For the State of Jharkhand :Krishnanand Pandey, Amrendra Kr. Choubey, Advocates.
For the State of Meghalaya :Ranjan Mukherjee, S. Bhowmick, Advocates.
For the State of Punjab :Jagjit Singh Chhabara, Kuldip Singh, Advocates.
For the State of H.P. :Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. AAG Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Advocates.
For the State of Uttarakhand :Ashutosh Kr. Sharma, Ms. Rachana Srivastava, Advocates.
For the State of Orissa :Sibo Sankar Mishra, Niranjan Sahu, Advocates.
For the State of Assam :Navnit Kumar, Advocate.
For the State of Mizoram :K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, Advocates.
For the UT of Andaman & Nicobar Admn. :K.V. Jagdishvaran, Mrs. G. Indira, Advocates.
For the State of Gujarat :Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Ms. Jesal Wahi, Ms. Vinakshi Kadan, Advocates.
For the Govt of NCT of Delhi :Shadman Ali, Wasim Qadri, Advocates.
For the State of Chhattisgah :Atul Jha, Sandeep Jha, Rajesh Srivastava, Advocates.
For the State of Nagaland :Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho, Amit Kumar Singh, Advocates.
For the Government of Puducherry :V.G. Pragasam, Prabu Ramasubramanian, Advocates.
For the State of U.P. :Rajesh Maurya, Ashutosh Sharma, Advocates.
For the Respondent in WP No. 164 of 2002:A. Subhashini, Ajay Pal, Arun K. Sinha, Avijit Bhattacharjee, Balaji Srinivasan, B. Balaram Das, Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Kuldip Singh, Naresh K. Sharma, Pradeep Misra, Rajesh Srivastava, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ravindra Kumar, R. Gopalakrishnan, R. Sathish, Sanjay R. Hegde, S. Srinivasan, T. Harish Kumar, Tushar Bakshi, V.G. Pragasam, Ms. C. K. Sucharita, M/s Corporate Law Group, Ms. G. Indira, Ms. Sandhya Goswami, T.V. Ratnam, Advocates.
ORDER :
This appeal is directed against an order dated 8th October, 1998 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Writ Petition No.968 of 1997 whereby the High Court has directed the State Government to set up five additional Consumer For a at the State level in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The scope of the proceedings though initially limited has been in terms of a series of orders passed by this Court widened in public interest keeping in view the fact that the problem of deficiency in the infrastructure available to State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions and District Fora has over the years become endemic and a pan India affair. Writ Petition No.164 of 2002 which came to be registered as a PIL on the basis of an affidavit filed by NCDRC Bar Association before this Court in public interest, also highlights deficiencies that are affecting the working of the National Commission, the State Commissions and the District Fora.
2. Several orders as noted above have been passed in these proceedings from time to time over the past eight years or so. Reference to all those orders is in our opinion unnecessary. All that we need say is that when the matter came up before us
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