HC notice to Delhi Milk Scheme
20 Nov 2013 11:44 PM GMT
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Delhi Milk Scheme on a petition against stopping milk supply to a particular booth and cancelling its allotment on hypothetical grounds, depriving the allotee of his livelihood.
A bench of justice V K Jain issued notice to the Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) on a petition filed by Santosh Kumar Jha challenging the cancellation of booth allotted to him and the milk supply to it depriving him of his livelihood. ‘Issue notice to the respondent for 26 February,’ the bench said.
DMS is a subordinate office of Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries with objective of supplying wholesome milk in Delhi at reasonable price.
Jha’s counsel Jagdeep Sharma had told the bench that DMS had stopped the milk supply to the booth allotted to Jha and cancelled the allotment on hypothetical grounds accusing him of selling tobacco products and keeping an LPG cylinder in the booth.
The counsel said no show cause notice was given to him and the DMS did not even obey the high court order on his earlier petition asking them to give a reasoned order and not to stop milk supply.
Jha said in his petition that ‘as his business started flourishing, some field level employees of DMS started demanding undue monetary benefits and started harassing him on one pretext or the other by finding faults in the manner in which he was running the booth.’
A bench of justice V K Jain issued notice to the Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) on a petition filed by Santosh Kumar Jha challenging the cancellation of booth allotted to him and the milk supply to it depriving him of his livelihood. ‘Issue notice to the respondent for 26 February,’ the bench said.
DMS is a subordinate office of Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries with objective of supplying wholesome milk in Delhi at reasonable price.
Jha’s counsel Jagdeep Sharma had told the bench that DMS had stopped the milk supply to the booth allotted to Jha and cancelled the allotment on hypothetical grounds accusing him of selling tobacco products and keeping an LPG cylinder in the booth.
The counsel said no show cause notice was given to him and the DMS did not even obey the high court order on his earlier petition asking them to give a reasoned order and not to stop milk supply.
Jha said in his petition that ‘as his business started flourishing, some field level employees of DMS started demanding undue monetary benefits and started harassing him on one pretext or the other by finding faults in the manner in which he was running the booth.’
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