Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 1: High Court has stayed the order whereby the present MD Housing Board has asked the Collector J&K Housing Board to initiate recovery proceedings to the tune of Rs 26 crore from the then MD Housing Board Ram Paul.
The order has been passed in a petition filed by Ram Paul, the then MD Housing Board seeking quashment of Order No. 338 JKHB of 2021 dated 15.12.2021 whereby direction has been issued to initiate recovery proceedings to the tune of Rs 26 crore under Section 41 of the Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board Act.
After hearing Senior Advocate PN Raina with Advocate JA Hamal appearing for the petitioner, Justice Puneet Gupta observed, “the grounds pleaded amongst others in the petition are that the same has been issued not in consonance with the directions passed by the courts earlier and further Section 41 of the Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board Act does not provide for the action as contemplated in the impugned order”.
”Keeping in view the submissions raised in the petition, the court is of the view that the case is made out for grant of interim relief to the petitioner. Accordingly, the order impugned is stayed till next date of hearing before the Bench. The respondents are at liberty to file objections by the next date”, Justice Puneet said.
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