SC stays contempt proceedings against Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
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An NGO filed a plea alleging non-compliance of Uttarakhand High Court’s order on cost of lease by former State chief ministers at market fee.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the contempt proceedings initiated against Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ for alleged non-compliance of the Uttarakhand High Court’s last year order on payment of rent by former chief ministers of the state for occupying authorities lodging. A Bench headed by Justice R.F. Nariman stayed the contempt proceedings on a plea filed by the Education Minister.
The Uttarakhand High Court had on May 3 final 12 months ordered the previous chief ministers of the state to pay market lease for all the interval they continued to occupy authorities lodging since demitting workplace.
The excessive courtroom had declared all authorities orders from 2001 offering housing and different amenities to former chief ministers within the state as unlawful and unconstitutional.
The courtroom had directed that each one quantity due and payable in the direction of facilities corresponding to electrical energy, water, petrol, oil and lubricants offered by the state to the previous chief ministers shall be computed by the state authorities inside 4 months from the date of receipt of the copy of the order.
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It had additionally stated that the quantity shall be intimated to the previous chief ministers, who shall inside six months from the date of such intimation, pay the stated quantity to the state authorities.
The excessive courtroom had handed the order on a plea by a Dehradun-based NGO.
After the final 12 months’s order, the NGO had filed a plea within the excessive courtroom alleging non-compliance of the order.
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