Delhi HC slams NGO for filing repeated PILs against mosques, dargahs

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up an NGO named Save India Foundation for repeatedly filing public interest litigation (PIL) petitions alleging encroachments by masjids and dargahs in the national capital. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that it did not appreciate the organisation’s conduct and that it was misusing the PIL jurisdiction of the Court.

“You see only one kind of encroachment? We do not appreciate this. You are misusing the court’s process. Every week you go around the city and see some religious structure and file a PIL,” Chief Justice Upadhyaya remarked.

“Are you seeking your name in the Guinness Book of World Records? You do not see any other ill in society? People who are not getting clean water, people who are starving, that’s not seen by you? You only see the encroachment? Please do not misuse PILs like this. These petitions disturb us,” the Chief Justice said.