Madras high court asks RDO to pay Rs 50,000 as penalty for flouting order–Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice R Suresh Kumar imposed the penalty on the transferred officer, and directed the incumbent RDO to remain present in the virtual court on June 13 along with the certificates for the petitioners.
Madras high court asks RDO to pay Rs 50,000 as penalty for flouting order
TNN | Jun 14, 2020, 09:28 IST
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Madras high courtCHENNAI: The Madras high court has imposed Rs 50,000 as penalty on a revenue divisional officer for failing to obey the court order and issue community certificates to a woman and her children. She and her two children were to be issued kurichchan (scheduled tribe) certificates by the Dharmapuri RDO.
Refusing to accept the excuse that the officer concerned had been transferred, a division bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice R Suresh Kumar imposed the penalty on the transferred officer, and directed the incumbent RDO to remain present in the virtual court on June 13 along with the certificates for the petitioners.
The bench was passing the orders on a plea moved by M Jayalakshmi, saying the officer had refused to refused to issue certificates to them despite repeated requests and an order passed by the state-level scrutiny community on January 31.
Allowing the plea, the court directed the RDO to issue the certificate and file a compliance report to the court on June 12.
