Court attaches UT Finance Secretary’s official car

CHANDIGARH:The court today attached the official car of UT Finance Secretary Sarvjit Singh who, along with other senior UT officials, is in the dock for not following the court orders to mutate a Sector 9-based property.

The official car of UT Finance Secretary Sarvjit Singh that was attached on court orders. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Aneesha Sareen

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 9

The court today attached the official car of UT Finance Secretary Sarvjit Singh who, along with other senior UT officials, is in the dock for not following the court orders to mutate a Sector 9-based property.

The Toyota Corolla (CH01 G 0007) belonging to the UT Finance Secretary was today impounded and shifted to the residence of the petitioner, who won a civil suit in February this year but the orders were not implemented by the UT Administration following which he moved an execution petition.

The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate KK Jain today issued orders for attaching the official Toyota Corolla car of the UT Finance Secretary following which the decree holder, senior advocate Sanjay Majithia, took the car in his custody and shifted it to his residence.

The UT Estate Office is in the dock for not following the orders of the court dated February 27, 2015, wherein the court had asked it to mutate the suit property (house number 46 in Sector 9) in favour of the petitioners as they had become the absolute owners of the suit property.

While the car of the Finance Secretary was impounded today, the court had also issued orders to attach the cars of the UT Adviser, UT Home Secretary and other senior officers, besides office furniture and computers.

The matter

On February 6, the court of ACJM KK Jain had ordered that the petitioner, Sanjay Majithia, and two others are declared to be the owners in possession of house number 46 in Sector 9-A. The court, while settling the property dispute in favour of the petitioners, had directed the Chandigarh Administration to mutate the property (transfer or change in title in official records) in the name of the petitioners. However, the UT Administration failed to mutate the property and follow the court orders.

Finance Secy was pulled up by High Court

On October 6, Justice Rajiv Narain Rana of the High Court had directed the UT Finance Secretary to appear in court to explain why action should not be taken against those who continue to violate the orders of the court. “If this is the predicament faced by a man of law, this court shudders to think what must be the plight of the common man. The Finance Secretary would also consider whether it would be appropriate for the court to open a controlled window for grievance redressal for the common man when there is abject failure on the part of the Administration to act in accordance with law and within a reasonable time frame,” the High Court had said.

Vehicle shifted to petitioner’s residence

The Toyota Corolla (CH01 G 0007) belonging to UT Finance Secretary Sarvjit Singh was impounded on Monday and shifted to the residence of the petitioner, who won a civil suit in February this year but the orders were not implemented by the UT Administration following which he moved an execution petition.