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| Hearing on Valentine Day | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 1
Even as the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged that a television news report dragging him to the forest scandal was telecast a day ahead of the hearing of same case in the court, the Srinagar wing of the state High Court, however, deferred the hearing till February 14.
Justice Bashir Ahmed Kirmani today deferred till February 14 the hearing on a petition against Chief Minister and others in connection with the timber scam in the state which also saw the Budget session being cut short earlier this week. Sources said that the case was deferred after the state counsel sought more time to file objections to the petition filed by former general manager of State Forest Corporation Ghulam Hassan Marazi.
The state counsel pleaded that since the government functionaries were busy with Assembly proceedings over the past one month, more time should be granted for filing objections.
Marazi, who was suspended following his indictment by Kundal report for his alleged involvement in the forest scam, filed the petition in the High Court claiming that he had been made a scapegoat for bunglings committed by brothers of Azad.
Marazi has sought quashing of the punitive orders passed by the Chief
Minister against him, claiming that it was done at the instance of Azad's brothers who were making undue demands as forest contractors.
During the last hearing on December 27, the court had directed the respondents excluding the chief minister to file objections to the petition.
The chief minister was exempted from filing objections for the time being by the court which maintained that after other respondents filed their replies, it will get an idea about the gravity of situation as Projected in the petition.
While not brushing aside the allegations leveled in the petition, the Constitutional post of the chief minister should not be trivialized,the judge had added. |
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