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HC Stay On Land Allotment To Judges, Scribes
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | April 21, 2008 | 423 views
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Loading ...The AP High Court on Saturday stayed the operation of four orders issued by the state government allotting house sites to cooperative societies set up by legislators, judges, All India Service officials (IAS,IPS, etc.) and mediapersons.
The division bench comprising Justice N Ram Mohan Rao and Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy, while hearing three petitions filed by Rao V B J Chelikani and others which challenged these allotments, ordered the state government and other respondents to file their counter affidavits by July 25 this year.
Earlier, a division bench comprising former Chief Justice G S Singhvi and Justice Nagarjuna Reddy had observed that such allotments cannot be made in favour of beneficiaries who already own land/house sites.
In the present batch of matters, it was contended that the very policy violated the core constitutional value of the independence of the judiciary and the fourth estate and that such a policy was unconstitutional. It was argued that the policy was also contrary to an earlier policy decision of the government not to provide prime land and not to provide for individual house sites in areas where flats have already been constructed and also to ensure a clause of non-alienation for 15 years.
The petitioners contended that the present government orders were contrary to both the constitution and the earlier policy.
The bench was informed that part of the land was already allotted and handed over to certain housing societies. It is learnt that except the housing societies of judges and journalists, most other beneficiary societies were already handed over the land.
The bench made it clear that no further allotments be made, and also directed the societies, to whom such land was already allotted, not to take up any further developmental work on the land.
The bench would take up the final hearing in this matter from August 8.
SOURCES:
Times Of India
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