The Supreme Court dismissed the bail application of a petitioner, who is an Officer of the office of the Alipore District Judge’s Court, accused of floating a tender without the permission of the District Judge. During the investigation, it has been found that there were no supplies but entries were affected in the documents of the office.
The Counsel, appearing for the State of West Bengal, opposed the bail application and submitted that the petitioner is not cooperating with the investigation. Whereas the Counsel, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that he needs time to file a rejoinder.
All the allegations by the opposition have fallen by the way side as the Supreme Court set aside the review petition on Rafale deal.
Now, it has set aside the review petition once again offering its observations on pricing and government’s decision-making process.
These are the areas that the petitioners and the oppositions have raised doubts.
These important observations taken as excerpts from the judgement copy are provided here.
“Insofar as the aspect of pricing is concerned, the Court satisfied itself with the material made available.
It is not the function of this Court to determine the prices nor for that matter can such aspects be dealt with on mere suspicion of persons who decide to approach the Court.
On Monday, the court warned the governments of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to stop stubble burning.
The SC has said in the strict words that the entire administration including the police, secretary, sarpanch, etc.
would be held responsible if another instance of stubble burning takes place in these states.
We are losing precious years of our lives… It is writ large that various State governments, civic bodies have failed to discharge their liabilities.
It is time to fix liability… This is a shocking state of affairs,” the frustrated Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta asserted.
Justice Mishra said, “Who is responsible for stubble burning?
