Supreme Court slams misuse of PIL for publicity

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday strongly disapproved of the rising misuse of public interest litigation (PIL), observing that the PIL jurisdiction is increasingly being invoked for purposes far removed from genuine public interest.

Justice BV Nagarathna said: "One thing we want to say by way of a reaction, PIL -- public interest litigation has now become private interest litigation, publicity interest litigation, paisa interest litigation and political interest litigation. All are called PILs. But we entertain only real and genuine PILs."