The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes has issued an arrest warrant towards Chandrapur collector Vinay Gowda for failing to seem earlier than the fee in reference to a case regarding tribal land. The warrant turned into issued via a letter to Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) Rajnish Sheth to make sure Gowda`s presence earlier than the fee`s courtroom docket on March 2.
Vinod Khobragade, a central authority employee-grew to become social worker, had filed a criticism with the fee, alleging that the authorities had allotted 63.sixty two hectares of land belonging to tribals from Kusambi village in Chandrapur to a cement company. The land, which turned into allotted for limestone mining over forty years ago, turned into executed with out the tribals` consent and with out paying them any compensation, stated the criticism.
According to Khobragade, on September 29, 2022, the fee despatched a word to the then collector Ajay Gulhane, asking him to post a document on this regard inside 15 days. However, Gulhane didn’t do so.
The fee once more despatched a word to the collector`s workplace on January 2 this year, asking the incumbent collector Vinay Gowda to post a document inside a fortnight. When Gowda too did now no longer obey the order, the National Commissioner for SC/ST, taking cognisance of the alleged defiance, scheduled a listening to on February sixteen and despatched summons to Gowda to seem in individual. Gowda, however, skipped the listening to and despatched a deputy collector (encroachment) in his stead.
Irked via way of means of this, the fee, exercise its civil courtroom docket powers beneathneath Clause (8) of Article 338 A, issued orders on February 21 to the director-standard of police Rajnish Seth to arrest Gowda and convey him in individual earlier than the NCST. The subsequent listening to of the fee is scheduled on March 2.
Explaining his stand in writing, Gowda stated that he had agreed to get hold of the summons to wait the listening to however because of unexpected situations turned into not able to wait in individual and had conveyed this to the fee through a letter dated February 13. In vicinity of the collector, he stated, the deputy collector (encroachment) turned into permitted to wait the listening to, and the fee have been knowledgeable accordingly. The deputy collector seemed earlier than the fee, Gowda added.
In a comparable case closing month, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes of Punjab had ordered the DGP to arrest an IAS officer and make sure that he turned into gift withinside the fee`s courtroom docket on January 17.
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