Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: The High Court, in a PIL filed by Balvinder Singh an RTI Activists seeking to disband the mode and practice of depositing of payments under all Major Heads of all Public Authorities to avoid giving undue benefit to the J&K Bank by means of commissions; to withdraw all officials/ employees of J&K State Govt deputed to J&K Bank for collecting remittance of challans of various denominations; also seeking direction to the Official respondents to take on itself the receipts and treasury transactions to get rid of payment of commission by adopting the mode of remittance of payment in the particular department itself or in the Govt treasury and also seeking investigation by CBI to initiate Inquiry for investigating the huge loss caused to the State Exchequer and to identify those who are responsible as well as beneficiaries out of the decision of giving undue benefit and wrongful gain, granted two weeks time response on behalf of the State.
Today when this PIL came-up for hearing, AAG Ravinder Sharma appearing vice senior AAG Gagan Basotra, projecting the difficulty of Sr. AAG to appear today, being out of the station, sought another two weeks time to file response on behalf of State. A Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Justice Virender Singh and Justice Bansi Lal Bhat granted two weeks time but as last opportunity and further observed that in default thereof, the Court shall be constrained to pass some interim direction.
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