BENGALURU: In relation to a contempt of court case, the Karnataka High Court directed Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) Commissioner Rakesh Singh to appear before it on Wednesday.
This was after the BDA’s counsel submitted that the BDA Commissioner was too busy to sign the counter-affidavit, and therefore, the counter-affidavit could not be filed before the court.
A division bench headed by Justice Raghvendra S Chauhan issued the above direction during the hearing of a contempt petition filed by D Lali Verghese against BDA. The petitioner alleged that the BDA was dispossessed her from her land notified for Arkavathy Layout, despite the interim order passed by the court. The said act of the BDA is willful disobedience of the interim order, she claimed.
Cost imposed on a professor
A division bench of Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Krishna S Dixit imposed a cost of `20,000 on Panditrao Darennavar, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Degree College in Chandigarh, for wasting the court’s time. The court imposed cost while dismissing the public interest litigation filed by Panditrao seeking directions to the protection of minorities and migrants, etc.