English: Allahabad High Court Judgment - PIL 31229 of 2005 - 14 March 2013

"The Court constituted the committee with fond hope that the committee shall identify unauthorised constructions and check those unauthorised constructions which have not yet been demolished and which are coming on very Ghats of Varanasi city for which this public interest litigation has been filed. We are dismay to note that the committee has not done its job and the photographs which have been brought today before us clearly indicate that unauthorised constructions have been ignored and the inspection has ignored several material facts. We are of the view that members of the committee who carried on the inspection, not carried the same with responsibility and the casual manner in which the unauthorised constructions are being ignored is nothing but an act to protect the illegal constructions. Several other photographs and details have been pointed out in the affidavit filed on behalf of the petitioner today which reinforces our view that Varanasi Development Authority, its Vice Chairman and other authorities are not discharging their duties and not carrying out the object and purpose for which the U.P. Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973 has been enacted and the duties which are entrusted on them. In spite of unauthorised constructions being pointed out, nothing is being done. The sufferers obviously is the public in general who has to use the Ghats and also the heritage buildings and other protected buildings due to laxity of the authorities. With regard to building 'Darbhanga Palace' also it has been pointed out that constructions have been made in the back portion which were contrary to the sanctioned plan of the Varanasi Development Authority and the said fact having been pointed out to the Varanasi Development Authority, nothing has been done in the matter."

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After the Allahabad High Court ( Order(PIL) No. - 31229 of 2005) made it clear that the Varanasi Development Authority officers and the Varanasi Divisional Commissioner in person (Mr. Chanchal Tiwari) were responsible for serious negligence the KS became a target of institutional harassment. The objective of this harassment was to impede the progress in the PIL, to discredit the Kautilya Society in front of the public and to deprive it of the support.