The Allahabad High Court has refused to restrain the construction of the Uttar Pradesh Government's ambitious '24 Kosi Parikrama Marg' in Sambhal, terming it an "important public project" done in accordance with the policy of the Government.

For context, the state government recently approved the project for the new construction, widening, and strengthening of the 24 Kosi Vansh Gopal Teerth Parikrama Marg under its charitable scheme for the financial year 2025-26 to ensure convenient transit for devotees.

Dismissing a plea that sought to stop the project to protect a specific land on which a private cold storage is proposed to be constructed, a bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Arun Kumar remarked that individual interest must yield to larger public interest.

"The Parikrama Marg is an important public project done in accordance with the policy of the Government and it is well settled that individual interest must yield to larger public interest carried in Government policies that subserve such interest...We cannot, therefore, restrain the construction of the Parikrama Marg," the bench remarked in its order.

The petitioners (M/S Shri Rk Cold Storage And General Mils And 3 Others) prayed for a direction to the state authorities not to construct the 24 Kosi Parikrama Marg over specific parts of their land.

It was their submission that, while the Parikrama Marg is a religious project undertaken by the UP Government for the purpose of the Kalki Dham Teerth, in the process, their land is being affected, on which they propose to raise a cold storage.

It was further contended that the petitioners would raise a loan to construct a cold storage, and that if the proposed Parikrama Marg is constructed, it would interfere with their constructed cold storage and cause much prejudice to them, including financial embarrassment.

After the bench refused to grant an injunction, counsel for the petitioners stated that the petitioner may be informed of how much of his land would be involved in the Parikrama Marg.

For this purpose, the Court asked the petitioners to approach the District Magistrate, Sambhal, who will cause the part of the land, belonging to the petitioner involved in the Parikrama Marg, to be demarcated and the rest of it, which is not covered by the Parikrama Marg, to be left out by means of suitable marks.

"It is then for the petitioner to decide whether he would still wish to construct any Cold Storage etc. in the truncated part of the land. It is also clarified that the Cold Storage can only be constructed on the remainder of the land, if permissible close to the Parikrama Marg; not otherwise," the bench clarified as it disposed of the plea.

Case title - M/S Shri Rk Cold Storage And General Mils And 3 Others vs State of UP and 4 others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 331

Case Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 331

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