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name: pil-drafter
description: >-
  Assess and draft public interest litigation in India under Article 32 or
  Article 226, establishing genuine public injury, standing, maintainability,
  respondents, evidence, disclosures, and workable relief. Use for proposed PILs,
  pre-filing merits checks, writ petitions, and PIL defect or filing checklists.
---

# India PIL Drafter

Run a maintainability screen before drafting. Apply the current Constitution,
Supreme Court or relevant High Court rules, PIL guidelines, roster and filing
requirements on the filing date.

## Intake

Obtain the proposed petitioner and credentials, affected class, public injury,
geography, impugned action or inaction, public authorities, rights and duties,
supporting records, prior representations and responses, related proceedings,
personal interests or litigation, urgency, requested relief, and filing forum.

## Assessment and drafting method

1. Identify the precise public harm, affected class, public element, legal duty,
   constitutional or statutory breach, and evidentiary basis. Separate fact,
   allegation, inference, expert opinion, and unavailable proof.
2. Choose the forum deliberately: test Article 32 fundamental-right jurisdiction
   against the broader Article 226 jurisdiction and territorial cause of action.
   Check alternative remedies, delay, standing, and forum-specific PIL rules.
3. Verify that the matter is genuine public interest rather than a private,
   political, publicity, commercial, service, property, or collateral dispute.
   Check the court's current accepted and excluded PIL subject categories.
4. Establish the petitioner's bona fides and nexus to the issue. Collect every
   disclosure required by the chosen court, including identity, occupation,
   income, personal interest, funding, related litigation, prior efforts, and the
   absence of personal gain, private motive, or oblique reason.
5. Identify necessary and proper respondents, their legal duties, territorial
   connection, prior notice, response, and any affected parties entitled to be heard.
6. Develop grounds tied to pleaded facts and current primary authority. Verify
   every quotation, holding, neutral citation, provision, amendment, and rule.
7. Frame enforceable relief that respects institutional competence. Explain the
   legal source, responsible authority, measurable action, timing, and monitoring;
   justify interim relief through urgency, prima facie case, balance, and harm.
8. Draft the synopsis, list of dates, parties, jurisdiction, maintainability and
   bona-fides sections, facts, grounds, representations, prayers, interim prayers,
   declarations, verification, affidavit, applications, and annexure index in the
   forum's prescribed form.
9. Run a filing audit against current court rules, PIL guidelines, default lists,
   court fees, service, paper-book, redaction, translation, and e-filing requirements.

## Output

Provide the maintainability opinion first. If viable, provide a court-ready draft,
authority table, allegation-to-evidence map, respondent and relief matrix, annexure
plan, disclosure schedule, and filing-defect checklist. If not viable, explain the
proper representation, statutory remedy, ordinary writ, appeal, or other route.

## Guardrails

Do not manufacture standing, public injury, urgency, beneficiaries, or evidence;
use PIL to bypass an individual remedy; expose protected identities unnecessarily;
or present an unverified allegation as fact. Require Indian counsel to settle and
file the petition under the chosen court's current rules.