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Observing that nary authorities serviceman tin initiate proceedings by disregarding the Rule of Law and specified violations necessitate deterrent action, the Telangana High Court, connected Thursday, instructed the Chief Secretary to reprimand Rajanna Siricilla Collector Sandeep Kumar Jha.
Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti, portion pronouncing the verdict successful a transgression petition filed by a housewife seeking to quash a cheating lawsuit against her astatine the behest of the Collector, said that the lawsuit showed the Collector’s bureau successful mediocre light.
“Action of the Collector shocks the conscience of this Court, thing much is to beryllium penned,” the justice said. Expressing “strong displeasure” implicit the actions, the justice said that the Bench was initially inclined to bid steadfast enactment against him. But the tribunal restrained itself “keeping successful presumption the agelong tenure of the officer”.
The location of the petitioner Vanapatla Kavitha, 43, successful Anupuram was acquired by the authorities successful 2004. Compensation was besides paid, but her sanction was not shown successful the database of task displaced families. She filed a writ petition successful the HC which declared that her household comes nether the explanation of ‘project displaced family’.
She besides filed a contempt of tribunal lawsuit arsenic the territory medication did not comply with the HC order. The authorities filed an entreaty against HC bid declaring her household a project-displaced family. Both the contempt of tribunal lawsuit and the entreaty plea are pending for adjudication by the HC.
Interestingly, the Vemulawada municipality constabulary presumption location serviceman registered a cheating lawsuit nether conception 420 of IPC against the pistillate based connected a complaint lodged by the Vemulawada Urban Tahsildar. Neither the constabulary serviceman nor the Tahsildar was a enactment successful immoderate of the writ, contempt and entreaty petitions. Following this, the pistillate filed a transgression petition requesting the HC to quash the FIR.
Inquiries revealed that the Collector wrote to the Revenue Divisional Officer to initiate transgression proceedings against the woman. The second directed the Tahsildar who lodged the complaint. The “authorities directing to initiate transgression proceedings decidedly amounts to maltreatment of the process of the court”, the justice noted. Such actions magnitude to curbing the state of beingness and liberty guaranteed nether Article 21 of the Constitution of India, helium added.
