JUDGMENT :

B.S. Chauhan, C.J. - This Public Interest Litigation has been filed raising a grievance that the Rourkela Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Authority") had earlier earmarked certain area of land for hospital, post office and Sulav Sauchalaya. However, in the said land a Commercial Complex has been constructed and shops have been allotted to private persons. Therefore, prayer is made to demolish the shops and the land should be restored to its original position and hospital, post office and Sulav Sauchalaya should be constructed on the said land.

2. Learned Counsel for the Petitioners submits that the Petitioners before this Court are practicing Advocates of the local court and being public spirited persons they feel aggrieved that the shops have been allotted to private persons. Therefore, the petition deserves to be allowed.

3. The learned Standing Counsel has opposed the learned Counsel for the Petitioner vehemently contending that the Petitioner has not filed any document to substantiate the averment that the land had been earmarked for the aforesaid purposes and in the absence of proper pleadings and documents to substantiate the same the petition c