Godown: HC tells UT adviser to find out whys and wherefores

A division bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Jaishree Thakur, which heard the matter, also asked the administration to clarify the orders of reversion of five officials to one step lower post for dereliction of duty in the matter. It wanted to know for what period they had been reverted.

In 2007, Pawittar Singh Walia, petitioner and legal heir of the property, approached the Estate Office seeking transfer of the property in his name. During the process, the Estate Office came to know that the property had been resumed in 1993, but remained in the possession of the allottee.

When the property was not transferred in his name, Walia moved the court.

The Estate Office ordered an inquiry by Land Acquisition Collector Tilak Raj, which indicted five officials for not submitting a report about the occupancy status of the property in order to initiate eviction proceedings.

After this, Estate Officer Mohammad Shayin initiated disciplinary action against the employees.

Parveen Mittal, SI (Enforcement), was ordered to serve as a junior assistant; Anil Kaushik, senior assistant, as a junior assistant; Narender Verma, a junior assistant, as clerk; Hukam from daftri to peon, and Sandeep Sharma from junior assistant to steno typist.

When the matter came up in the court on Thursday, the Estate Officer reported the action taken against these officials. After the hearing, the case was adjourned for May 9, 2015.