Restrictions on Public Interest Litigations - A New Vista

In State of Uttaranchal v. Balwant Singh Chaufal the Supreme Court had come up with eight guidelines which were passed to curb the growing number of public interest litigations (PIL) in the High Courts and Supreme Court. This verdict has had a cascading effect on PIL and now the Courts are slowly curbing the tendency of looking at PILs as a panacea to all the ills in society. The new vista in PIL of self-restraint by the Court and discouraging of PILs is analysed in this article.