Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Assn fumes over adverse orders

Mohali, May 20

Even as the Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Association continues to boycott the Court of Justice (retd) PS Dhaliwal (Principal Bench), Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, over “adverse orders”, the latter has rubbished the claims as baseless.

IP Singh, head of the Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Association, has on Wednesday said there had been numerous complaints from the advocates over the last one week that the Principal Bench in spite of giving assurance was still passing “adverse orders”.

“…even some matters which were for final arguments have been reserved for orders,” he said.

A delegation of the association had met president Justice Dhaliwal and the members of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Punjab, and submitted a representation, which was duly accepted and it was assured that no adverse orders shall be passed and only extremely urgent cases shall be taken up, IP Singh had stated in a press release.

“No adverse orders have been passed by this court,” Justice Dhaliwal retorted.

IP Singh alleged, “It was also noticed that the counsels who had given the representation were being pinpointed and their urgent cases were also not taken up.”

IP Singh further said he, along with association secretary Nitin Thatai, had logged in for the virtual hearing on Wednesday to view the proceedings of the Principal Bench. “A case was taken up wherein the associate of Nitin Thatai made a request for adjournment in view of the resolution of the Bar which was declined by the president of the commission.”

“I tried to intervene, but the president out-rightly refused to adhere to the resolution and even misbehaved with me and Nitin Thatai,” claimed Singh.

In view of this, we are not left with any choice but to hold a meeting with the association members which unanimously decided to boycott the court of commission president.

Justice Dhaliwal, meanwhile, said: “IP Singh has always been arrogant and threatening in nature.”

He said IP Singh was representing various real estate developers and always tried to delay the execution proceedings. “My endeavor is to help alleviate the concern of all stake holders and not to accommodate only a selected few,” he said.

“The cases of about 120 advocates who have submitted their requests and are signatories to the representation were adjourned till June 30 as desired by them. Only those cases are being heard through video-conference where the party or counsel insists on hearing the case urgently…,” he added. — TNS

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