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| PIL highlighting allotment of Municipal flats to ex-Officers/Officials of JMC | | DB directs JMC to disclose norms for allotment | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 23: In the much publicized PIL filed by a practicing lawyer Irtiza Mushtaq Salaria highlighting illegal allotment of shops/flats/garages and other municipal assets by Jammu Municipal Corporation, A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sindhu Sharma after hearing Adv Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed for the PIL directed Jammu Municipal Corporation to disclose norms/criteria for allotment.
When the PIL came up for hearing, the Division Bench observed that the Public Interest Litigation is continuing for the last four years. The main grievance of the petitioner is that the Municipal Corporation, Jammu had allotted 13 flats and a land of a pound to its officers without following any procedure of law in an arbitrary manner. These officers/employees of the
Municipal Corporation was not entitled to any such allotment as probably for their residential purposes separate houses were constructed in Shakti Nagar, Jammu which have been allotted to the leaders.
Adv Sachin Gupta, appearing for the Municipal Corporation, Jammu is called upon to justify the allotment of the flats and the land of the pound in favour of the private respondents and to demonstrate the procedure which was followed in the said allotment.
If it is alleged that the allotment was made to them as they were employees of Municipal Corporation, he is called upon to show the service rules entitling these officers/employees to the allotment as also the object of the construction of the said houses and whether the same have been utilized for the purpose for which they were constructed.
DB further directed that in case any flat has been allotted to a private person, Gupta would explain how and in what manner the said allotment has been made without issuing any advertisement or inviting applications from the public at large.
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