Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Saturday directed the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, to show cause by July 3 why he should not be suspended and a contempt of court proceedings not be initiated against him for willfully disobeying the court’s June 14 direction for placing a tahsildar and an assistant commissioner under suspension.
Justice Ravi Malimath passed the order after noticing that the Principal Secretary had neither implemented the court’s direction for placing the two officers under suspension nor had submitted a report to the court about compliance of June 14 direction. “It is a very disturbing conduct and this is not the way the government should be acting,” the court observed orally.
Stating that it had directed the Principal Secretary to place an Assistant Commissioner and the tahsildar of Bengaluru South sub-division under suspension as the two officers had not followed the rule of law while demolishing certain structures, the court has sought to know from the Principal Secretary why a similar order for suspension should not be passed.
The disobedience to the court’s earlier order came to its notice when the government on Saturday moved a plea for recalling the court’s June 14 order for suspending two officers.