Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has held an executive engineer from Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GWSSB), Mr Pandya, guilty of insulting the court and imposing a fine of RS 50,000 to him because he did not follow the court order by reducing TDS.
The amount of RS 17.62 lakh from compensation for land acquisition to be given to landowners.
This case involved one Champabhai Hasururbhai from the village of Cambhada Botad, whose land was obtained and compensation was given to him.
Exit from the amount of compensation of more than Rs 1.9 Crore, the department reduces TDS, which according to various assessments cannot be deducted from compensation given to land losers.
This happened in 2008.
following the direction by the high court last year, the department would return TDS to farmers within three days, but that did not happen.
The High Court also noticed that the number was also not stored with the income tax department.
When the head bench by Justice Sonia Gokani asked about non-payment to landowners, the executive engineer arrived on the grounds that he had delegated work to the head officers, who failed in his duties.
The court refused to buy this argument and said, “One of the miracles of how the head officers can be said to be responsible for such things, because he will not have virtual power to decide aspects of disbursement, which is too large.
The number of Rs is 17,62,504 and This problem has been delayed by the Office of the Executive Engineer from 2016.
“The court holds the pandya responsible for the default and observed,” the contender with his devices interferes substantially with the attendance that is due and, therefore, he has been considered guilty of the insults of the court.
It is also used for intentional and intentional disobedience from the sequence of court can be punished for insults.
“That is an unconditional apology tendered by pandya and received by the court who saved prison.
But the court ordered it to deposit with the RS 2,000 court to penalties and Rs 50,000 on fees.
Of this number, the court ordered to pay Rs 40,000 to broadcast.