Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today dismissed former Minister Choudhary Lal Singh’s petition against an eviction notice issued to him and directed him to vacate the Government residence allotted to him previously within six weeks.
Singh, the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party president, was among several politicians who were served notices by the Estates Department last month to vacate Government accommodations at Jammu’s posh Gandhi Nagar locality.
The former Minister had, however, moved the High Court against the notice on the pretext that he was covered under ‘Z-category security’.
The case came up for hearing before Justice Sanjeev Kumar Shukla, who dismissed the petition after hearing the arguments from both sides, senior Additional Advocate General Monika Kohli said.
She said the court gave six weeks’ time to the former minister to vacate the bungalow.
In its notice, the Estates Department had asked Singh, who has been occupying the bungalow for the past two decades, to vacate the building by November 15.
A two-time MP and three time MLA, Singh switched from the Congress to the BJP in 2014 and was also a Minister in the previous PDP-BJP Government, which collapsed in June 2018.
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