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2016 Supreme(All) 418

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, YASHWANT VARMA
ANURAG MISHRA – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF U. P. – Respondent


Advocates:
Counsel :
Yogesh Mishra for the Petitioner; C.S.C. for the Respondents.

JUDGMENT

By the Court.—The grievance which has been urged before this Court in the public interest litigation is in regard to the defacement of public signboards erected on the streets in Allahabad. The petitioner has annexed photographs to indicate that public signboards are defaced across the city by pasting notices and advertisements of private persons. The signboards outside the High Court are no exception and are victim of such practices, particularly when elections to the representative associations of the Bar are held. The petitioner submits that signboards near important hospitals are also defaced, thereby defeating the purpose of providing information through them to the members of the public. The grievance is that the Public Works Department, Allahabad Development Authority and the Nagar Nigam, Allahabad do not take any action.

2. The Nagar Nigam has appeared in these proceedings through learned counsel and has filed a counter-affidavit. For completing the record, we allow the impleadment of the Nagar Nigam. The amendment shall be carried out during the course of the day.

3. The issue which is posed before the Court is not as much about the want of statutory authority as m






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