Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 27: High Court has stayed the operation of an order passed by Assistant Director, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department on the verbal directions of Minister of State (MoS) for CAPD.
The stay was granted in a petition filed by Pardeep Singh, son of Kuldeep Singh of Katra, who submitted through Advocate Assem Sawhney that the order bearing No.513/AD/FCS/CA/R dated November 19, 2016 was issued by the Assistant Director CAPD Reasi on the directions of MoS for CAPD for temporary distribution of Government ration at a private shop without fulfilling the norms and conditions laid down under the policy for opening of new Fair Price Shops under Targeted Public Distribution System.
“The order was politically motivated and passed with malafide intentions and arbitrariness”, the counsel for the petitioner said, adding “the decrease in quota of the petitioner by distribution through Government salesmen is arbitrary and illegal and against the norms”.
After hearing Advocate Aseem Kumar Sawhney assisted by Advocates Utkarsh Pathania, Neeraj Sharma and Ila Khajuria, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal observed, “the case for showing indulgence has been found”. Accordingly, court issued four week notice to the Commissioner Secretary CAPD, AD CAPD Reasi and TSO Katra and in the meanwhile kept the impugned order in abeyance.
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