Law students’ PIL on January 22 holiday dismissed by Bombay HC | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Asking petitioners to be careful while filing a PIL in future, Bombay high court (HC) at a special hearing on Sunday, dismissed one filed by four law students who had challenged the Jan 22, 2024 public holiday declared by the stae government. The PIL was a “patent abuse of process of law” said the specially constituted division bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Neela Gokhale after an almost 3-hour hearing.The holiday notification, said HC, relying on and finding value in a Kerala HC ruling, rather than flouting secular principles of the Constitution, as alleged in the PIL, buttressed them. State advocate general Birendra Saraf said the PIL had “political overtones” as petition says this is a fit case to…