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. 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. 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 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. “We have pleaded that in gross defiance of court orders they have chosen to carry out ‘sit-ins’ at the railway tracks and blocked national highways impeding the free movement of citizens within and across the state causing huge inconvenience to public, thus undermining the authority of orders of the judicial courts and in this case high court,” Samdaria said in his prayer before the court.The petitioner has also enclosed the media reports to cite the inconvenience caused during the agitation that started on February 8 and ended on February 16 noon.

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