P C :

The present petition has been filed challenging the display of the pictures and portraits of the Deputy Chief Minister in the offices across the State of Andhra Pradesh on the ground that the said action is arbitrary and violates the principles enshrined under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

The petitioner states that the present PIL has been filed to safeguard public interest.

2. We fail to understand as to how the display of a portrait or a picture in a Government office of a Deputy Chief Minister would in any manner affect any of the rights of a citizen under the Constitution in the absence of any specific statutory prohibition on such display. The petition is clearly filed with a political motive.

3. In Dattaraj Nathuji Thaware v. State of Maharashtra , [(2005) 1 SCC 590] , the Apex Court held as under:

“4. ...Public interest litigation which has now come to occupy an important field in the administration of law should not be “publicity interest litigation” or “private interest litigation” or “politics interest litigation” or the latest trend “paise income litigation”. The High Court has found that the case at hand belongs to the last category. If not properly regulat