{"id":402,"date":"2018-01-21T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=402"},"modified":"2018-09-20T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:09:17","slug":"breach-of-timelines-by-government-hurts-judicial-conscience-delhi-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/breach-of-timelines-by-government-hurts-judicial-conscience-delhi-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Breach of timelines by government hurts \u2018judicial conscience\u2019: Delhi High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif;\">Source &#8211;<strong>\u00a0financialexpress.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif;\">Tax-payers\u2019 money is \u201cgoing down the drain\u201d as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the\u00a0Delhi High Court\u00a0has said, terming it as \u201ca very sorry state of affairs\u201d. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the\u00a0BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the construction of a foot-over bridge (FoB) and an underpass on a railway line, despite the fact that the project in West Delhi was inaugurated way back in 2008. \u201cEveryone present in this courtroom pays tax. It pains our judicial conscience, when we deal with such issues. The authorities are squandering taxpayers\u2019 money and this speaks of a very sorry state of affairs,\u201d a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif;\">The court took note of the fact that the MCD was in breach of even the extended time-line of 2014 and said \u201cthe misuse of taxpayers\u2019 money by authorities must stop at all cost. They have a monopoly in determining as to how our money is spent.\u201d The project is not \u201ceven moving at snail\u2019s pace\u201d, it said adding that BJP, which has won the MCD polls third time in a row, is ruling the tri-furcated civic body for over ten years now and yet projects are far from being completed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif;\">\u201cThe authorities, whether it is the corporation or the government, are not understanding that we pay for these projects. Our money is being misused and it is going down the drains,\u201d it said, adding that the breach of time-lines again and again must have escalated the project cost by many notches. The civic body, during the hearing, could not apprise the court about the escalated cost of the two projects. The High Court has now asked the municipal body to file a status report by July 25 indicating the time-line within which they propose to complete the projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif;\">It was hearing a PIL, filed by Delhi-based activist Sandeep Kumar, alleging that delay in construction of a railway FoB and the underpass at Nangloi and Sultanpuri respectively in West Delhi was creating problems for commuters. The projects were undertaken as the railway crossing in these areas were unmanned and had led to many fatal accidents in past.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/breach-of-timelines-by-government-hurts-judicial-conscience-delhi-high-court\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0financialexpress.com Tax-payers\u2019 money is \u201cgoing down the drain\u201d as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the\u00a0Delhi High Court\u00a0has said, terming it as \u201ca very sorry state of affairs\u201d. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the\u00a0BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[6,342,26,759],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-government","tag-high-court","tag-judicial-conscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}