New Delhi: Expressing disappointed on the government’s maintenance “with the impunity of false claims and defense” in court, Delhi HC on Saturday said this was a matter of “big worries”.
Every time the wrong claim was pressed by the government in court, it “caused a very large injustice” for a persecutor, was observed.
HC’s sadness comes when dealing with a collection of cases related to the challenge by the government for compensation given by the train claiming the court and false claims by the Cement Corporation of India are needed by rent in Delhi.
HC asked the central government and Delhi to frame litigation policies responsible to officers for irregularities in handling court cases.
“In all these cases, the government raised false claims / defenses before this court which was a matter of great concern.
All of these cases surprised the conscience of this court.
It seems that false claims are raised with impunity because there is no accountability of government officials to increase claims and courts that rarely take Actions on the person concerned to increase false claims / defenses, “said Justimal Jr Midha in 31- judgment of the page.
The court said because this false claim was even the government suffered, but the officer concerned, which had raised false claims, did not face any action.
It is said “if the facts given by the officers are found wrong / wrong by the court, the government must consider taking action and copy of the assessment will be stored in the ACR Officer file.
This will ensure the officer is responsible for the actions taken by the court.” It quotes examples of sikkim and Haryana who say they have litigation policies that bring more accountability.
It was said there was a need to include similar rules by the central government and by the Delhi government.
“The state of Sikkim has framed the rules to hold the accountability for irregularities in handling court cases.
There is a need to include similar rules by the central government and by the Government of Delhi,” HC observed and added that “Haryana state has framed litigation policy Haryana – 2010 to present Qualitative and quantitative improvements seen; the way in which litigation is felt, managed and carried out in the state.
“The center of the part tells HC that there is no current government litigation policy and that national litigation policy, 2010 has never been implemented.
The court then said that his direction to uphold accountability in government litigation “was in the nature of pills (litigation of public interest)” and registered the problem before the Bench pill.
It notes that in accordance with the management of legal information and direction systems (limbs) – the wing of the central government to monitor and deal with various court cases of departments and government ministries – 4,79,236 government cases, 2,055 cases for compliance and 975 cases of insult to be suspended on June 8, 2021 .
This noted that the Ministry of Finance had the highest number of 1.17,808 cases, while the train had a second highest pendiance with 99,030 cases.