Constitution of India

— Arts. 226 and 32 — Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Maintainability — Standing/Locus standi — Case-law on meaning, nature and scope of PIL discussed — Auction of mining lease — Writ petition challenging the auction filed as PIL by an intending bidder who had been disallowed to participate therein, held, rightly dismissed by High Court — More so when another writ petition questioning the legality of the auction filed by the same petitioner together with certain others was at that time pending before the High Court, (2006) 6 SCC 180