RAKESH KUMAR JAIN
Shiv Kumar Gupta – Appellant
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State of Haryana – Respondent
RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J.
1. The petitioner was allegedly fell in an open manhole, maintained by the Municipal Committee, Jagadhri, Yamunanagar. He filed an application before the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Yamunanagar for seeking compensation. The said application was allowed initially. The Municipal Committee challenged that order before the State Commission. The appeal was allowed and the matter was remanded back to the Forum again and the Forum dismissed the petition on 08.10.2012. Thereafter, the petitioner chose to file a PIL for seeking a direction to the State of Haryana for covering all the open manholes. That PIL, however, was dismissed for non-prosecution and on the ground that it was not a PIL because the petitioner was not prosecuting that petition as pro-bono but liberty was granted to him to file a separate petition because he was having a personal interest. The present petition has been filed in which again the petitioner has sought direction that the manholes in the State of Haryana be covered. It is also submitted that so far the petitioner had not been granted any compensation for the injury and trauma, he had suffered because of the neglige
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