HC summons GB Nagar DM over RERA recovery certificates

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court on Monday directed district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar (GB Nagar) Suhas LY to remain present in the court on October 4 to explain his inaction in reference to the recovery certificates issued by Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA ) in several cases.

“The district magistrate would come out with the details of all the pending matters for a recovery pursuant to the order passed by the RERA.

This court would pass appropriate order if no justification is found in the inaction of the district magistrate, Gautam Buddh Nagar,” said the court. The bench comprising acting chief justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and justice Piyush Agrawal passed the order on a petition filed by Priya Kapahi.

HC asks IOC officer to appear before it

Taking a serious note of noncompliance of its orders by officials of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the Allahabad high court on Monday directed some responsible officer of the corporation to appear before the court along with the record on September 30 with regard to fixing responsibility for compliance of the orders passed by the court.

Hearing a contempt petition filed by one Brijbhan Yadav, Justice Prakash Padia observed, “It is seen that a large number of contempt petitions are being filed against the officials of the IOCL for non compliance of the order passed by this court from time to time.

This fact shows that the authorities of the IOCL are not taking seriously the orders passed by this court, which is resulting in a large number of filing of the contempt petition”.

As per the petitioner, he had filed a writ petition challenging rejection of the candidature of the petitioner for grant of petrol pump and its licence.