JUDGMENT :

Dipankar Datta, J.

1. The petitioner, a legal practitioner, has invoked the ‘Public Interest Litigation’ jurisdiction of this Court by presenting this writ petition dated 24th August, 2018 seeking multiple reliefs (the prayer clauses are in excess of 20), which we propose to refer a little later.

2. At the outset, we wish to record that final hearing of this writ petition commenced on 18th February, 2021 and in course thereof, apparently, the petitioner was found to have raised in it a matter of serious concern. The Lavasa Hill Station Project in Pune district was under challenge along with challenges mounted to various statutory provisions and administrative decisions. Given the seriousness of the challenges laid, necessitating the State of Maharashtra to be represented by none other than the Advocate General, and having regard to impleadment of “Very Important Person(s)” (VIPs) in the array of respondents, who were represented by a battery of learned senior advocates of repute, we perceived a bitter contest having the attributes of placing the petitioner in a fair measure of difficulty in appropriately placing his case in the desired manner while communicating with one of