DIPAK MISRA, CJ

In this public interest litigation preferred under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner, a non-governmental organization, has prayed for many a relief but basically for issue of a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents No.1 and 2, namely, Union of India and its Ministry of Women and Child Development and Chief Secretary of Government of NCT of Delhi to investigate into the health hazard that was suffered by the children of the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Block 20 of Trilokpuri in East Delhi, who were forced to eat contaminated food under the Mid Day Meal Scheme on 25th of November, 2009 and prosecute the persons who have failed in their duty and, further, to award compensation to the children who were affected after consuming such food.

2. The facts which are essential to be adumbrated are that there is a set of guidelines, namely, National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education, 2006 (Mid Day Meal Scheme) Guidelines (for short the Scheme?) under which the mid day meal is served to the young children as an encouragement to attend the school. For supply of mid day meal at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, a non-governmenta