​Public Interest Litigation (Pil)

  • Supreme Court in September 2018 stated that Public Interest Litigation is there for people who cannot afford to approach the courts and dismissed a PIL filed by former Navy Chief Admiral Ramdas.
  • PIL is a part of Judicial Activism and was started by the Supreme Court in 1980.
  • Its main architects were Justice P.N. Bhagwati and Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer.
  • The concept of PIL is in consonance with the principles given in Article 39 A of the constitution which directs the state to provide Equal Justice and Free Legal Aid.
  • It is directly filed by an individual/ group of people in the Supreme ....
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