Ramachandran Nair, J.

This is a public interest litigation filed by a resident of Aluva challenging the permission granted by the respondents to hold public meeting on the PWD road in front of Aluva Railway Station. Petitioner has produced several photographs one of which shows the stage constructed on the side of road partly occupying the tarred portion of the road. Another photo shows large number of people seen assembled in the road blocking traffic on the road. Yet another photograph produced shows that people are sitting in large numbers in chairs arranged on the tarred portion of the public road. Counsel submitted that since several meetings were held in the road blocking traffic and causing inconvenience to the public, at least in future the respondents should be prohibited from permitting meetings on public road in front of Aluva Railway Station. Petitioner has stated that the road in front of Aluva Railway Station is probably the busiest road in the Aluva town where the Bus-stand and Railway Station are located on either side of the road and both sides of the road are fully occupied by shops. The photographs produced show that large number of vehicles are strand