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A division bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh of the Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a publc interest litigation against proposed Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Delhi, saying that the petitioner had not attached a single annexure to show that the said celebrations were being advertised in any way by the Delhi government in the first place. 

The court was hearing a PIL filed by one Adv. ML Sharma.

Sharma had argued that in terms of the constitutional mandate and the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the SR Bommai case, the government cannot promote religious celebrations, upon which the court marked that there were no documents on record to show that the government had promoted the celebrations. 

The bench observed that the plea is "filed without proper homework" and dismissed the plea as withdrawn, with liberty to the petitioner to file afresh with due annexures and averments.

The country celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi, a major festival of the Hindus, on Sep 10 this year.