ORDER :

Heard Shri R. Subramanian, learned advocate for the petitioner and Shri S. Ganesh, learned Senior Advocate for respondent No.3.

2. Shri Ganesh has raised a preliminary objection with regard to maintainability of this writ petition. In substance, he submitted that petitioner has filed a public interest litigation registered as W.P.No.3635/2020 with a prayer inter alia for a writ of mandamus and to direct respondents no.1 to 10 therein to constitute a multi disciplinary investigation team to investigate and prosecute the offences alleged to have been committed by Mr.A.H.Prem ji (respondent No.11 therein) and his associates, set out in its representations dated January 30, 2020 and February 3, 2020 submitted to respondents No.1 to 6 therein. He submitted that respondent No.8 in the PIL is the Chairman, Security and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI" for short). This writ petition is filed against four respondents of which, the Chairmen, SEBI is the first respondent. Adverting to the prayers in this writ petition, Shri Ganesh submitted that prayer clauses (a) and (b) are for directions against SEBI to take up the investigation for violation of provisions under SEBI Act by respondent