Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government and 22 judges have been served notices by the High Court that admitted a public interest litigation challenging the allotment of land to them at concessional rates.
A two-judge bench of the High Court, headed by Acting Chief Justice VM Sahai, treated letters from two former judges Justice BJ Sethna and Justice KR Vyas as a public interest litigation which had complained against the allotment.
The former judges have complained that the allotments have been made in violation of norms.
The state government had issued a resolution in 2008 announcing allotment of plots at concessional rates to high court judges. The plots were allotted over the years in Sola and Gota areas of Ahmedabad - considered to be a prime real estate area.
Seeking responses by tomorrow, the Court asked for details of how the plots were allotted.
Hearing arguments against the case, the Court said by hearing the case it was not casting any shadows on the government process.
But for the sake of transparency a proper inquiry needed to be conducted to ascertain if there were violation of norms, Justice Sahai said.
A two-judge bench of the High Court, headed by Acting Chief Justice VM Sahai, treated letters from two former judges Justice BJ Sethna and Justice KR Vyas as a public interest litigation which had complained against the allotment.
The former judges have complained that the allotments have been made in violation of norms.
Seeking responses by tomorrow, the Court asked for details of how the plots were allotted.
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But for the sake of transparency a proper inquiry needed to be conducted to ascertain if there were violation of norms, Justice Sahai said.
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