PIL is not maintainable in service matters: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has expressed doubt over its 1998 judgment, which had held that a PIL is not at all maintainable in service matters. A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta dismissed special leave petitions filed by Pratap Singh Bist and others against the Delhi High Court’s judgments of November 11, 2022 and February 14, 2023. The court, however, expressed its reservation with the high court’s finding that the PIL was not maintainable in service matters.