The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed the suspension order of the elected workplace bearers of Gram Panchayat Saini Majra.
A division bench of Justice Anil Kshetrapal mentioned, “…the continuation of the order of suspension dated January 28 would not be in the interest of the residents of the village and hence it is set aside…”
The petitioners, Labh Singh and others, elected representatives of Gram Panchayat, Sainimajra, have been suspended by the Director-cum-Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Department, Punjab from the respective workplaces of Sarpanch and Panchs in train of powers underneath part. 20 of the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act, 1994.
The petitioners contended by means of advocate, advocate Sanjeev Patial that the 2 colonizers, particularly ‘Altus Space Builders’ in addition to ‘Omaxe’, bought the land together with the agricultural agricultural land of the villagers for the development of residential colonies, however his After that, barricading began on the frequent routes. This resulted in battle because the villagers confronted issue in accessing their agricultural land. Thus the villagers filed a civil go well with towards the colonists wherein the decrease courtroom granted an injunction.
Thereafter, underneath the affect of builders, the gram panchayat handed a decision on November 1, 2017, requesting the federal government to compensate the land underneath the route within the mega undertaking being developed by the builders. Another decision, the proposal for land acquisition was handed by means of GMADA. Thereafter, new workplace bearers i.e. petitioners have been elected and the physique modified its determination. However, to facilitate the sale of gram panchayat land, an administrator was appointed for a interval and two sale deeds of the land have been executed. Thereafter, the officers try to seize the sale consideration quantity as properly.
Justice mentioned the suspension of the workplace bearers can’t be saved pending and it’s only an interim step to guard the curiosity of the gram panchayat earlier than the ultimate determination. He mentioned that it’s clear from the studying of part 20 that earlier than passing an order of suspension, the director have to be happy that such officer seems to be responsible of misconduct or whose continuance in workplace is undesirable within the public curiosity and in details. In the matter, the State has failed to attract the eye of the Bench to any such motion on the a part of the functionaries.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
