The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking direction to the respondent authorities for conducting the State Eligibility Test Examination for subject Earth Science (Geology) and similar subjects which is required in the State of Chhattisgarh.
The PIL further seeks direction to the respondent authorities to amend the notification by adding subject Earth Science (Geology) and alike other subjects also for examination of State Eligibility Test in the year-2024.
At the very outset, a preliminary objection has been raised by the State Counsel regarding maintainability of the petition in the form of public interest litigation as the petition itself, the petitioner states that all the petitioners are qualified persons for higher education due to lack of clearance of SET examination, they are being deprived from getting job in concerned subject, therefore, the petitioners have their personal interest in this petition, hence, the same cannot be termed as public interest litigation.
Chandrabhushan Kesharwani, counsel for the petitioner, submits that the interests of the petitioner are only to the extent that they are students of Earth Science.
In view of the above, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal dismissed the public interest litigation as not maintainable. However, the Court leaves it open for the petitioner to avail the appropriate remedy available in law.