JUDGMENT - A. V. SAVANT, J. :--- Heard all the learned Counsel.

2.This is a petition seeking very innocuous relief that respondent No. 1, 2 and 5 namely the State Government, Director of Printing and Publication Department and Union of India should be directed to make available by publishing and printing adequate number of authenticated copies of the bare Acts, legislation, rules and other statutory instruments having force of law at a reasonable price to the public at large throughout the State. Prayer (b) is as follows:

"(b) Respondent Nos. 1, 2, 5 be directed to make available adequate number of authenticated copies of the bare Acts, Legislations, Rules, Regulation and other statutory instruments having force of law in the State of Maharashtra to all the three benches of the High Court of Judicature of the State as well as to all the moffussil courts in the State of Maharashtra immediately.

3.The petitioners are citizens of India and both are lawyers practising in this Court. The petitioners have contended that under Article 21 of the Constitution they have a right to know the law which governed them. They have right to get the information about the laws which enable them to effect

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