SC pulls up def secy for appeal against ₹5 lakh compensation
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi 05.01.2019
: The defence secretary got a bitter dose from the Supreme Court for adopting the traditional approach of government officials to appeal against all decisions of the high courts, even if it involved petty amounts or where the government was in the wrong.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay K Kaul took exception to the defence secretary appealing against a Manipur HC order asking the Centre and the state government to pay ₹2.5 lakh each to the widow of a person who was killed in an encounter in 2009.
“The high court had asked the district judge concerned to examine the matter and on his report has ordered payment ₹5 lakh as compensation to the widow. Is it such a case for the defence secretary to file an appeal? What kind of appeal is this,” the bench demanded to know from counsel Aishwarya Bhati.
Bhati said the widow had also approached the National Human Rights Commission, which had in April 2017 directed the Manipur government to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to next of kin of Khumukcham Thoiba. She said the state government had already paid that amount to the widow. Is it permissible for a person to continue parallel proceedings for compensation, one before the NHRC and another before the HC, she asked and alleged the HC was not informed about the compensation already paid as per the NHRC order.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi 05.01.2019
: The defence secretary got a bitter dose from the Supreme Court for adopting the traditional approach of government officials to appeal against all decisions of the high courts, even if it involved petty amounts or where the government was in the wrong.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay K Kaul took exception to the defence secretary appealing against a Manipur HC order asking the Centre and the state government to pay ₹2.5 lakh each to the widow of a person who was killed in an encounter in 2009.
“The high court had asked the district judge concerned to examine the matter and on his report has ordered payment ₹5 lakh as compensation to the widow. Is it such a case for the defence secretary to file an appeal? What kind of appeal is this,” the bench demanded to know from counsel Aishwarya Bhati.
Bhati said the widow had also approached the National Human Rights Commission, which had in April 2017 directed the Manipur government to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to next of kin of Khumukcham Thoiba. She said the state government had already paid that amount to the widow. Is it permissible for a person to continue parallel proceedings for compensation, one before the NHRC and another before the HC, she asked and alleged the HC was not informed about the compensation already paid as per the NHRC order.
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