Allahabad High Court

DR SANDEEP KUMAR CHAUDHARY AND 38 OTHERSversusUNION OF INDIA AND 3 OTHERS

Decided: 6 May 2026
Bench: SAURABH SHYAM SHAMSHERY

Holding

A collective writ petition filed by numerous petitioners with disparate facts is not maintainable; petitioners must file independent writ petitions.

Summary

The petitioners, a group of 39 individuals, filed a writ petition challenging the implementation of the DACP Scheme. The Court observed that the large number of petitioners made the facts jumbled and that a collective petition was not appropriate. Consequently, the Court dismissed the writ petition, granting the petitioners liberty to file separate independent writ petitions for their individual grievances. The order emphasized that filing separate petitions would not prejudice the petitioners' rights. No substantive merits of the DACP Scheme were addressed.

Issues considered

Whether a writ petition filed by a large group of petitioners with varied grievances is maintainable as a single petition

Subjects

writ petition
maintainability
collective filing
Civil Procedure Code
DACP Scheme

Judgment

                                             HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
                                                            WRIT - A No. - 6379 of 2026

                                    Dr Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary And 38 Others
                                                                                              .....Petitioner(s)
                                                                      Versus

                                    Union Of India And 3 Others
                                                                                            .....Respondent(s)

                                    Counsel for Petitioner(s)       : Sameksha Agarwal, Sunil Kumar
                                    Counsel for Respondent(s)       : A.S.G.I., Chandan Sharma, Dhananjay
                                                                      Awasthi, Pooja Agarwal

                                    Court No. - 32
                                               HON'BLE SAURABH SHYAM SHAMSHERY, J.

                                    1. Heard Ms. Sameksha Agarwal, learned counsel for petitioners, Sri

                                    Dhananjay Awasthi, Advocate for Respondent-3 and Ms. Pooja Agarwal,

                                    Advocate for Respondent-4.


                                    2. The writ petition is disposed of with liberty to petitioners to file

                                    independent writ petitions since it is filed by as many as 39 petitioners,

                                    therefore, facts are jumbled.


                                    3. This order will not come in way if petitioners move independent

                                    representations ventilating their respective grievance for benefit of DACP

                                    Scheme before concerned respondent for consideration, so that it may be

                                    considered by Competent Authority.


                                                                               (Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J.)
                                    May 7, 2026
                                    AK




Digitally signed by :-
AWADESH KUMAR
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad

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