Hyderabad, Feb 22: Tightening noose on top officers for again & again non complying court orders causing delay in justice, the Telangana High Court awarded punishment of simple imprisonment of six months to Medak District Collector and IAS officer of 2015 batch, holding him guilty in a contempt of court case.
Justice K. Lakshman instructed the IAS officer to pay Rs 4,000 to petitioner. The sentence was suspended for four weeks to allow him to file appeal.
However, it is the need of the day to act tough on such kind of officers for bringing early justice to general public , who are suffering due to harassment of such alike officers, who are heavily paid on public taxes but in turn they harass public for their routing works, need more tough actions to bring more efficiency in the administration & lot such officers can be seen in JKUT for not complying court orders again & again despite last & final opportunity's granted by respective courts?
The petitioner filed the contempt case stating that Medak District Collector wilfully disobeyed the order of the High Court in writ petition no. 8915 of 2024. Laxmi, who was the petitioner in that matter, contended that her father Chakali Ushaiah owned two acres and 22 guntas of land at Bonal village in Chegunta mandal of Medak.
Her father died in 1987 and eventually her mother too passed away & being the only daughter, Laxmi claimed rights over the property and submitted an application to the authorities to mutate the land on her name in 2022 and issue Pattadar Passbook.
With the authorities, rejecting her request, she moved the HC which directed the authorities to consider her application in accordance with the law by putting all other persons claiming rights over the same property on notice.
The authorities passed an order on January 20, 2024 stating that her father sold the property to T. Gangaiah, G. Narayana, K. Mallaiah through an unregistered sale deed (sadabainama) and she was not in physical possession of the said land. T
he Collector also cited a report of the Tehsildar and Girdawar concerned and directed her to approach civil court. The woman filed contempt of court case stating that the Collector disobeyed the HC order.
Justice K. Lakshman, after hearing contentions of the petitioner’s counsel and the government pleaders, noted that despite specific directions of the Bench to put all interested parties on notice in the matter, the Collector wilfully disobeyed the same by not insisting for submission of the sadabainama details.
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