The Gwalior Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has served contempt of court notices to Additional Chief Secretary of Panchayat and Rural Development Aruna Sharma, Principal Secretary of General Administration Department (GAD) K Suresh and CEO district Panchayat Gwalior Sofia Faruqui.
All the three would have to present themselves before the court on July 11. The notice has been given for not complying with the court order in the petition filed by an employee of district Panchayat Dinkar Pratap Singh Chauhan.
According to the Madhya Pradesh High Court of Gwalior Deputy Advocate General, Vivek Khedkar, the court had given order in favor of Chauhan in case of writ petition number 5680/2009/S on March 23. But an appeal filed by this order by the Government was rejected on July 27, 2011. After that a special appeal was filed in Supreme Court which was also rejected on April 15, 2013.
Thereafter, a time of four weeks was given to comply with the orders on September 27, 2013 on October 28, 2013, it was stated that if the orders was not comply the CEO would have to be present herself. The court said that enough time was given to comply with the order but the officers were not complying orders deliberately. The court gave two weeks’ time saying that the Addl CS Aruna Sharma, Addl CS GAD K Suresh and CEO district Panchayat Gwalior Sofia Faruqui should be present before the court on June 19.