The Rajasthan excessive court docket has imposed a effective of ₹50,000 every on two bureaucrats for failing to adjust to its instructions concerning district-wise lake surveys beneath the Rajasthan Lakes (Safety and Improvement) Authority Act, 2015.
The matter is now listed for additional listening to on Might 23, 2025. (Consultant file picture)
Listening to a suo moto writ petition pending since 2016, the division bench of Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma on Friday took critical be aware of continued non-compliance and noticed that no honest effort had been made by the state authorities other than submitting “half-baked affidavits”.
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In its earlier order dated November 18, 2024, the excessive court docket had granted three months to finish the survey of lakes throughout all districts. The order had underlined that whereas 9 lakes had been notified thus far, the true activity was to conduct a district-wise survey to establish different lakes that should be notified beneath the 2015 Act. The bench had then particularly directed, “Let the exercise towards completion of survey be undertaken and all endeavor be made to complete the process of survey within a period of three months.”
The order additionally recorded that the State Stage Committee had held a sequence of conferences with district authorities and required monetary help from the federal government to hold out the survey. A phased launch of funds was additionally ordered by the court docket.
Nevertheless, regardless of the time given, no compliance affidavit was filed and no utility in search of extension was submitted prompting the court docket to impose prices whereas observing, “This must be made known to the State authorities that the Court’s order must be complied within the stipulated time and non-compliance of the Court’s orders shall be viewed very seriously in the matter like the present one which pertains to public interest.”
The court docket mentioned it noticed no justification for the non-compliance.
“It is clear on a glance at the order dated November 18, 2024, that the survey was already ongoing and some meetings were held by the State Level Committee for obtaining survey reports and therefore this Court directed the respondents to complete the survey within three months’ time.”
The extra advocate basic knowledgeable the court docket that the survey was nonetheless ongoing, which the bench discovered unsatisfactory.
The court docket directed each officers to deposit the ₹50,000 every inside two weeks with the Registrar (Administration) of the Excessive Courtroom. The quantity shall be drawn in favour of Authorities Blind Faculty, Mata ka Than, Jodhpur, and Authorities Blind Faculty, Jaipur.
The matter is now listed for additional listening to on Might 23, 2025.