The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has rejected a PIL seeking directions for Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, to Bahujan Samajwadi Party founder late Kanshiram.
"As to how the recipient for civilian awards are to be declared and all the ancillary aspects are matters for consideration at the appropriate level. We find no element of public interest being involved in this petition and no reason to exercise PIL jurisdiction. The petition stands rejected," the court said.
A division bench of justice Dinesh Maheshwari and justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya passed the order on Monday on a PIL filed by a local lawyer.
The petitioner submitted that he had made representations for conferring posthumously the highest civilian award to Kanshi Ram but these were kept pending.
