CAG experiences on liquor, air pollution despatched to LG for putting in meeting: Delhi govt to HC

The counsel for the Delhi authorities, nevertheless, clarified he didn’t have formal written directions on this and sought time to put on file the developments within the matter.

“I’ve oral directions that the finance minister has forwarded the recordsdata to the LG. However I cannot make any assertion until I get it in writing from them,” mentioned senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog, representing the Delhi authorities.

Lieutenant Governor’s counsel mentioned 10 recordsdata have been obtained by the LG workplace on the evening of December 11 to put them earlier than the legislative meeting.

The courtroom granted time to the counsel for the Delhi authorities and the Lieutenant Governor to file their affidavits on the next developments and posted the listening to on December 16.

The meeting session was over on December 4.

The petition has been filed by chief of opposition within the Delhi Meeting Vijender Gupta and BJP MLAs Mohan Singh Bisht, Om Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Mahawar, Abhay Verma, Anil Kumar Bajpai and Jitendra Mahajan.

They’ve contended the federal government was performing in breach of its statutory responsibility by failing to “promptly” lay essential Comptroller and Auditor Common experiences on varied points akin to air pollution and liquor earlier than the meeting.

In its reply, the CAG mentioned eight experiences pertaining to Delhi have been pending with town authorities for laying earlier than the legislative meeting in accordance with the Authorities of Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi Act.

The CAG has mentioned in accordance with the authorized framework, the Delhi authorities has to put the audit experiences submitted by it earlier than the meeting and it has prior to now written to the principal secretary , requesting him to do the identical.

Based on the response, experiences from 2022 to 2024 pertain to finance audits, air air pollution, “income, financial, social and common sector and PSUs”, youngsters in want of care and safety, liquor and public well being.

On October 29, the excessive courtroom issued notices to the Delhi authorities, the workplace of the meeting speaker, the LG, the CAG and the accountant common , Delhi, and sought their responses to the petition.

The plea claimed the 12 CAG experiences from 2017-2018 to 2021-2022 have been pending with Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, who additionally holds the finance portfolio.

The plea alleged that regardless of the LG’s repeated requests, these experiences have been despatched to him for tabling earlier than the meeting.

The petition, filed by advocates Neeraj and Satya Ranjan Swain, mentioned the BJP MLAs approached the chief minister, chief secretary and speaker prior to now however no motion was taken.

“Regardless of the LG’s repeated requests and constitutional obligation, these experiences weren’t despatched to the LG and consequently, couldn’t be tabled within the Delhi Legislative Meeting,” it mentioned.

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