High court issues notices to chief secretary Gujjar body on agitation

Jaipur | Tuesday | 19th February, 2019

Summary:

Jaipur: Hearing public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Rajasthan High Court on Monday issued notices to the chief secretary, government of Rajasthan and Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti led by Kirori Singh Bainsla for disruption of road and rail traffic during the recent Gujjar agitation. They had also caused vandalism which led to the destruction of public property, this is in gross violation of Articles 19, 21 and Article 300A of constitution of India. The respondents have been asked to reply in four weeks’ time. The bench comprising chief justice of Rajasthan, Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice GR Moolchandani heard the PIL filed by lawyer Sunil Samdaria and issued notices.“I have filed the PIL in the matter of state-wide Gujjar agitation where leaders of Gujjar community had held the state to ransom and had truncated the movement of trains and buses in the state. The state remained a mute spectator to hooliganism of the community,” Samdaria who filed the petition told TOI.The petitioner has also submitted that the leaders of Gujjar community and the state authorities are already facing contempt proceedings in the SB civil contempt petition no 19/2008 (State of Rajasthan Vs Prahlad Gunjal and others), SB civil contempt petition no 205/2008 (State of Rajasthan Vs Kirori Mal Bainsla and others) and in SB contempt petition no 595/2008 (suo moto vs DC Samant and another) in relations to earlier held Gujjar agitation..