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| HC directive on construction of lawyers' chambers | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 3: In a PIL for the construction of lawyers' chambers, parking and security of the court, a high court division bench of Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal today observed that by virtue of an earlier order, this court had directed the state to release a minimum of Rs 4 cr in favour of JKPCC within a period of two weeks from the date of order. The bench, after perusal of status report filed by Additional Secretary of law department in which it has been stated that the planning department on May 5 last had accorded sanction of earmarking of Rs 4 cr for the construction of lawyers' chambers in Jammu. However, the status report further reflected that only 50 pc of the allocation, i.e Rs 2 cr had been released by the Planning Dept in favour of the law department for the construction of the chambers and the approach road. The bench took a serious note and observed that no reason had been given in the status report as to why despite clear orders from this court and despite the sanction order, the entire amount had not been released in favour of JKPCC in compliance to the order passed by the division bench.
The JKPCC counsel stated that no amount as yet has been released by the agency from the government. However, in anticipation of the receipt of amount as now reflected in the sanction order, the work has been initiated and is in full swing. Upon this, the bench observed that in the light of submissions, there appears to be no reason or logic as to why despite court orders, the secretary planning had not released the amount in its entirety as ordered. The bench observed that another direction was passed earlier by this court with regard to the sanctioning of Rs 50 lakh for the black topping of the road leading to the new parking area in court complex with a view to enable PWD to commence the work immediately thereafter. On reading the status report, the court observed that it appears that this part of direction has not been complied with too on ground that detailed estimate of work has yet to prepared for which matter appears to have been taken up with the chief engineer, PWD. The bench, after hearing advocate Abhinav Sharma appearing for the Bar Association Jammu, took serious note for not complying the court directions and directed Secretary Planning to comply the court order within a period of two weeks failing which he shall remain personally present on the next date of hearing. |
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