Delhi High Court Closes PIL Seeking Special Benches To Adjudicate Quashing Pleas, Asks Lawyer To Give Suggestions On Administrative Side

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday closed a public interest litigation to constitute special designated benches to adjudicate quashing petitions on the basis of a settlement.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice dk Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the lawyer Aditya Singh Deshwal to give the suggestions on the administrative side.

“Let's discuss the basic principles of seeking a mandamus. Is it in your realm what practice direction should be followed? If you find something wrong in the practice directions, then you can seek a certiorari. But for mandamus, you have to establish your right first which is being infringed,” CJ told Deshwal.

The Court remarked that the PIL was kind of a “suggestion” and permitted Deshwal to give his suggestions on the administrative side.

“Having regard to the nature of the grievance raised in the PIL, we permit the petitioner to approach the administrative side with suggestions,” the Court ordered.

It added that the suggestions be submitted in a fortnight and the same be taken into consideration and the decision be communicated to Deshwal.

The Court then disposed of the petition.

The plea sought that the scope of practice directions issued in December last year be enlarged for the purpose of constituting special designated bench to adjudicate “non contentious compromise-based petitions for quashing of FIR.”

Title: Aditya Singh Deshwal v. Delhi High Court through Registrar General 

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 593