Written by: Press Trust of India
2 min readNew DelhiJul 23, 2013 03:12 AM IST
First published on: Jul 23, 2013 at 03:12 AM IST
The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the Centre and the Railways for not spelling out steps taken to recover the loss incurred to the exchequer due to destruction of property and blockade during protests after the Mirchpur violence in Haryana in 2010.
You want to write off the loss. Three years have passed and you will take many more years. Do you suggest that you will take 30 years? We want to know the steps taken by you to recover the loss, a Bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda said.
The Bench made it clear that the authorities are directly responsible if they fail to protect public property and said then they authorities are party to atrocities committed to public property.
You should have the guts to recover the loss, the Bench said after the counsel for the Centre said he could only answer the question on recovery of loss after taking instruction from authorities concerned.
The Bench made the remarks while hearing a case relating to rehabilitation of the members of the Dalit community who had to leave Mirchpur village in Haryanas Hisar district after the incident.
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