NURMAHAL
On Wednesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice of motion to the state of Punjab returnable by August 16, 2023, on a petition seeking.
direction to the government to deposit the contract amount to Gag Dhagara village.
A division bench comprising Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Kuldeep Singh passed this order on an Execution Appeal filed by Gag Dhagara village panchayat.
Village sarpanch Banat Kaur has filed an execution appeal in the court submitting that the former sarpanches had filed a civil writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2015 seeking directions to a private contractor to deposit the balance amount of the contract money with the panchayat.
She said in her appeal that then Justice Surya Kant and Justice PB Bajanthri, disposing of the petition, had said in their judgment on February 2, 2016, that the needful, including the determination of the amount payable by the private contractor, should be done within three months. It had directed the Mining Department to deduct the amount from the security deposit and release the gram panchayat’s share within a month.
The sarpanch submitted that an amount of Rs 1,48,15,757 was deducted by the Mining Department from the security deposit of the contractor.
The sarpanch further submitted that the Mining Department had auctioned the village mining quarry in 2013, which continued operations until 2015.
She has urged the High Court to direct the state to release the amount in favour of gram panchayat with an interest of 9 percent.