Court orders auction of NDMC chief’s car, office articles to pay civic bills
A Delhi court has directed that the car and other articles in the office of the commissioner of North Delhi Municipal Corporation be attached and auctioned to realise the money which the civic agency has failed to pay to a registered government contractor.
Additional district judge Ajay Goel passed the order after Rajesh Gupta, a registered government contractor, approached the court seeking payment of nearly Rs 1.68 lakh for his work and informed it the civic agency has not paid him despite a decree by another court in 2011.
Earlier, the court had ordered attachment of bank accounts of an executive engineer of the agency but the warrant was received back with a 'strange report' that only Rs 57 is outstanding in the account.
'The government agency is openly disobeying the dictate of the decree and it is to be executed simultaneously against the commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation to the tune of Rs 1,68,109 along with interest. The attachment of bank account has also yielded no result.
Accordingly, the car as well as the articles in the office of commissioner, NDMC, Chandni Chowk/Minto Road be attached and thereafter, amount be realised by selling them in auction,' Goel said.
Gupta told the court that he was awarded the work of constructing 20 seats at the 'Jan Suvidha' complex in an area in north-west Delhi, pursuant to tenders floated by the then Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
He said for the work, only cement and steel was to be provided by the civic agency while he was to provide all other material as well as labourers.
Gupta said though there was delay in completing the work due to obstacles such as the MCD not clearing the sites for work and objections from the residents of the area, it was finally finished. However, when he furnished the bill, no payment was made, he said.
He then initiated a suit for recovery which was decided in November 2011, by which date the agency and also one of its executive engineers were directed to pay Gupta Rs 65,000 along with interest till the time of payment.
Additional district judge Ajay Goel passed the order after Rajesh Gupta, a registered government contractor, approached the court seeking payment of nearly Rs 1.68 lakh for his work and informed it the civic agency has not paid him despite a decree by another court in 2011.
Earlier, the court had ordered attachment of bank accounts of an executive engineer of the agency but the warrant was received back with a 'strange report' that only Rs 57 is outstanding in the account.
'The government agency is openly disobeying the dictate of the decree and it is to be executed simultaneously against the commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation to the tune of Rs 1,68,109 along with interest. The attachment of bank account has also yielded no result.
Accordingly, the car as well as the articles in the office of commissioner, NDMC, Chandni Chowk/Minto Road be attached and thereafter, amount be realised by selling them in auction,' Goel said.
Gupta told the court that he was awarded the work of constructing 20 seats at the 'Jan Suvidha' complex in an area in north-west Delhi, pursuant to tenders floated by the then Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
He said for the work, only cement and steel was to be provided by the civic agency while he was to provide all other material as well as labourers.
Gupta said though there was delay in completing the work due to obstacles such as the MCD not clearing the sites for work and objections from the residents of the area, it was finally finished. However, when he furnished the bill, no payment was made, he said.
He then initiated a suit for recovery which was decided in November 2011, by which date the agency and also one of its executive engineers were directed to pay Gupta Rs 65,000 along with interest till the time of payment.