HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 331 of 2026 Ravindra Ahlawat @ Ravindra Kumar …..Petitioner(s)

Versus State of U.P. and 4 others …..Respondent(s)

Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Shantanu, Raj Kumar Dhama Counsel for Respondent(s) : Diptiman Singh, Seema Agarwal, S.C.

Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J.

1. This petition, purportedly in public interest, has been filed by an Advocate praying for a direction to respondents no. 2 and 3, i.e. Executive Engineer, Meerut Khand, Ganga Canal/Irrigation Department, Meerut and District Magistrate, Meerut to remove illegal encroachment made by respondent no. 5, i.e., Daurala Sugar Mill, Meerut (‘ the Mill’) over both sides of road of Daurala lower Rajwaha (Mini Canal) passing by the Mill, situated at Tehsil Sardhana, District Meerut.

2. Case of the petitioner is that Daurala lower Rajwaha is passing by the Mill and the road on both sides thereof has been encroached by the Mill by raising illegal constructions and since the road/rasta/track of both sides of the canal connects a large number of villages, encroachment is causing great inconvenience to the vil