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GOVERNOR Sardar Latif Khosa has issued a contempt notice to the director general of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) regarding the authority’s criminal negligence in developing a public park in Johar Town as per the master plan.
The governor, in response to the letter received from the office of the director Law, LDA, on November 17, 2012, expressed dismay over the delay in setting up a park in Johar Town despite the courts orders in 2009 and called LDA DG Ahad Cheema to appear before him in person to show cause for the contempt.
The LDA, in response to the orders passed by the governor to it regarding the directions of the Lahore High Court and Supreme Court, had submitted that the governor was not bestowed with any of such powers under Section 32 of the Punjab Office of the Ombudsman Act, 1997 to exercise powers, envisaged as an appellate authority on the basis if the direct representation as such.
The governor, in the show cause notice served to the LDA DG on December 1, 2012, stated that “the LDA DG may be enjoined to tender a detailed explanation as to why he may not be proceeded against for contempt to be punished with imposition of forfeiture of salary for as many months as is determined as a cost to be burdened on you by the Representation Authority (Governor)”.
“You, in your capacity as the DG LDA, stand implicated for impeding, obstructing and undermining the proceedings of the Appellate Court of the Governor,” said the governor in the notice he served through his principal secretary to LDA DG Ahad Cheema.
The notice further states that it was evident from the LDA DG’s misdemeanor and discourtesy, manifestly prejudicial to good conduct as well as detrimental to decorum of the appellate court of representation authority which, having been defiled and derided, is not to be countenanced at any cost.
The notice said that the governor/representation authority expressed his dismay and shock over lackadaisical responses on the part of the respondent agencies which had deliberately preferred to stick to protracted procrastination to eventually prolong the ordeal of the bewailing residents of the area (Johar Town) who had constantly been deprived of the facility of a public park.
“It appears that no substantial and tangible action has been taken pursuant to the directions of the high court’s order, dated 7.7.2009 deciding CR NOs 2069-07, 2068-07, WP No. 11293-07, which undoubtedly has attained finality after the civil petition of 2009,” said the show-cause notice.
“The order of the high court as also that of the apex court are imbued with utmost clarity and are studded with brevity, I fail to understand why it is taking that long to proceed in the matter for development of a park which is a concern of public interest as well as the welfare of the residents of Johar Town,” said the governor.
GOVERNOR Sardar Latif Khosa has issued a contempt notice to the director general of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) regarding the authority’s criminal negligence in developing a public park in Johar Town as per the master plan.
The governor, in response to the letter received from the office of the director Law, LDA, on November 17, 2012, expressed dismay over the delay in setting up a park in Johar Town despite the courts orders in 2009 and called LDA DG Ahad Cheema to appear before him in person to show cause for the contempt.
The LDA, in response to the orders passed by the governor to it regarding the directions of the Lahore High Court and Supreme Court, had submitted that the governor was not bestowed with any of such powers under Section 32 of the Punjab Office of the Ombudsman Act, 1997 to exercise powers, envisaged as an appellate authority on the basis if the direct representation as such.
The governor, in the show cause notice served to the LDA DG on December 1, 2012, stated that “the LDA DG may be enjoined to tender a detailed explanation as to why he may not be proceeded against for contempt to be punished with imposition of forfeiture of salary for as many months as is determined as a cost to be burdened on you by the Representation Authority (Governor)”.
“You, in your capacity as the DG LDA, stand implicated for impeding, obstructing and undermining the proceedings of the Appellate Court of the Governor,” said the governor in the notice he served through his principal secretary to LDA DG Ahad Cheema.
The notice further states that it was evident from the LDA DG’s misdemeanor and discourtesy, manifestly prejudicial to good conduct as well as detrimental to decorum of the appellate court of representation authority which, having been defiled and derided, is not to be countenanced at any cost.
The notice said that the governor/representation authority expressed his dismay and shock over lackadaisical responses on the part of the respondent agencies which had deliberately preferred to stick to protracted procrastination to eventually prolong the ordeal of the bewailing residents of the area (Johar Town) who had constantly been deprived of the facility of a public park.
“It appears that no substantial and tangible action has been taken pursuant to the directions of the high court’s order, dated 7.7.2009 deciding CR NOs 2069-07, 2068-07, WP No. 11293-07, which undoubtedly has attained finality after the civil petition of 2009,” said the show-cause notice.
“The order of the high court as also that of the apex court are imbued with utmost clarity and are studded with brevity, I fail to understand why it is taking that long to proceed in the matter for development of a park which is a concern of public interest as well as the welfare of the residents of Johar Town,” said the governor.
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