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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     15 December 2010

Apex court fined 10lakh to Deshmukh??

Plz. go thru the news item below,

 

 

 

Apex court raps Deshmukh

 

New Delhi, Dec 14, DHNS:

 


The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for subverting the criminal justice system by helping a money lender at the behest of the latter’s MLA son despite some farmers having lodged a complaint of harassment against him.

 

Imposing a cost of Rs 10 lakh on the state government, a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly said, “Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh certainly acted beyond all legal norms by giving the impugned directions to the Collector to protect members of a particular family who are dealing in money lending business from the normal process of law.’’

 The judges said Deshmukh, who is now Union Industries Minister, had tried to save money lender Gokulchand Sananda and others after his son Dilip Kumar Sananda, an MLA, had spoken to him.

“The chief minister, without verifying the truthfulness or otherwise of the assertion of Shri Dilip Kumar Sananda that false complaints were being lodged against his family members, issued instructions that the complaint against the concerned MLA and his family members should be first placed before the District Anti-money lending committee, which should obtain legal opinion of the District Government Pleader and only then take decision on the same and take appropriate legal action,’’ said the judgment.

“The (former) chief minister should not have interfered with the criminal justice system,” said the bench in 21 page judgement. 

Talking about the money lending business, the apex court said, “Nearly 300 farmers have committed suicide in Vidarbha region as victims of such illegal money lending business and the torture perpetrated in the recovery of such money.’’

Government appeal


The apex court gave the order while dismissing the state government’s appeal challenging the Rs 25,000 imposed on it as cost by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court.

The high court had imposed the fine after finding ‘gross interference from the executive’ in shielding a private financier belonging to the ruling party.

It is mentioned in the judgment that chief minister Deshmukh’s private secretary Ajinkya Padwal had twice called up the Khamgaon city police station in Maharashtra on May 31, 2006, to enquire about a complaint against Gokulchand Sananda.

The complaint had been filed by Sarnagdharsingh Chavan and his brother Vijaysingh Chavan, who had said they took a loan from Sananda, but were unable to pay it back due the exorbitant interest rate at 10 percent per month levied on the capital.

 
 

https://www.deccanherald.com/content/120608/sc-fines-maha-shielding-cong.html



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 6 Replies

Uma parameswaran (lawyer)     15 December 2010

The poor farmers are still in darkness,

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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     15 December 2010

Actually Maha Govt. has been fined.

Dr. MPS RAMANI Ph.D.[Tech.] (Scientist/Engineer)     16 December 2010

Maharashtra Government has been fined. That means as a tax-payer in Maharashtra I have been fined.

What is the justification? Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act says that Managing Committee members are liable to make good any loss suffered by the Society. After all MC members are honorary members only. Deshmukh as Chief Minister had drawn salary' perks and many other benefits, all of which came from taxpayers money. So Deshmukh should have been fined and not the Maharashtra Government. Fining the Government is unfair on the people of Maharashtra.

MPS Ramani

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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     16 December 2010

Yes, I do agree that  It is Mr. Deshmukh who has committed error not the govt. so he should have been fined not entire state. If at all Deshmukh is not be able to pay the fine then he can be jailed.

Dr. MPS RAMANI Ph.D.[Tech.] (Scientist/Engineer)     18 December 2010

In USA correspondence with Government is encouraged to be addressed by the name of the person concerned. They say that if the letter straight goes to the person concerned, it receives prompt attention. If the person has changed it will go to the next person who has come in the former's place. In India we follow the practice left behind by the British. But in India also one can find out the name of a particular officer if one wants. It is not that they are anonymous. The problem is that they go on changing

MPS Ramani

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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     19 December 2010

Name of any officer can be found on the board on which the successor list is written.

The other problem with the officers/ bureuocrats are that instead of listening and disposal they prefer to send to us to head clerk. So head clerk becomes actual officer. They prefer not to take any kind of headache.


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