‘Non-payment of dues’: SC remains contempt court cases in opposition to Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
Up to date: October 26, 2020 12:06:24 pm
Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’. (Record Photograph)
The Ideal Court docket on Monday stayed the Uttarakhand Top Court docket’s contempt court cases in opposition to Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal for allegedly failing to pay hire for the federal government bungalow he was once staying in.
A bench headed via Justice R F Nariman stayed the contempt court cases on a plea filed via the Union Minister of Schooling.
The Uttarakhand Top Court docket had on Might three final 12 months ordered the previous leader ministers of the state to pay marketplace hire for all the duration they persevered to occupy govt lodging since demitting administrative center. The prime courtroom had declared all govt orders from 2001 offering housing and different amenities to former leader ministers within the state as unlawful and unconstitutional.
The courtroom had directed that each one quantity due and payable in opposition to facilities comparable to electrical energy, water, petrol, oil and lubricants equipped via the state to the previous leader ministers can be computed via the state govt inside of 4 months from the date of receipt of the reproduction of the order.
After the final 12 months’s order, the NGO had filed a plea within the prime courtroom alleging non-compliance of the order.
In August this 12 months, the Uttarakhand Top Court docket issued show-cause notices to 3 former leader ministers and the state leader secretary whilst listening to a contempt petition over non-compliance of its order to transparent dues for amenities utilized by the state’s ex-CMs for years. A number of the former leader minister named within the plea have been Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
(With inputs from PTI)
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