83
Service, 11 DLR (SC) 140; Mian Fazl Din V. Lahore
Improvement Trust, 21 DLR (SC)
Government
by
Schwartz
and
225; Legal Control of
Wade,
page
291;
R.V.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner (1968) 1 All ER 763;
Blackburn V. Attorney General (1971) 2 All ER 1380;
R.V. Metropolitan Police Commissioner (1973) All ER
324, on the question of maintainability of the writ
petition held that with the increase of governmental
function, the courts in India and England found the
necessity
of
liberalising
the
standing
rule
to
preserve the rule of law and that the duty owed by
the public authority was to the general public and
not to an individual or to a determinate class of
persons,
and
therefore,
the
writ
petitioners
have
locus standi as they have sufficient interest in the
performance of public duty.
On the question of public interest litigation,
the High Court Division has considered the cases of
Mumbai Kamgar Sava V. Aledulbhai, AIR 1976 S.C. 1455;
S.P. Gupta V. President of India, AIR 1982 S.C. 149;
Kazi Moklesure Rahman V. Bangladesh, 26 DLR (AD) 44;
Dr. Mohiuddin Farooque V. Bangladesh, 49 DLR (AD) 1;