Info Obtained From Social Media Can't Form Part Of Pleadings: Bombay High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Protection From 'Unsafe Water Bodies'

The Bombay High Court has recently observed that pleadings in public interest litigations shouldn’t simply contain information gathered from social media.A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor refused to hear a plea by advocate Ajitsingh Ghorpade seeking directions for appropriate measures to safeguard people from waterfalls and water bodies, claiming that...