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This is an archive article published on December 9, 2011

Plot plea pending,Naroda Patiya judge moves HC

According to Gandhi,Yagnik had mentioned Manipur or Chenpur villages on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city as her preferences for a residential plot.

Following a petition by the special trial judge hearing the 2002 Naroda Patiya killings case that her application for the allotment of a residential plot under a government scheme has been pending since 2008,the Gujarat High Court has issued a notice to the Revenue Department.

The petition filed by Jyotsna Yagnik,who is also the additional principal judge at the Ahmedabad City Civil & Sessions Court,stated that the state government has not decided on similar applications by many other district judges within the stipulated time period of 120 days since their receipt.

A single-judge bench of HC comprising Justice S R Brahmbhatt,while issuing the notice on Thursday,posted the matter for further hearing on December 21.

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According to Yagnik’s lawyer Chinmay Gandhi,the state government had introduced a scheme to allot residential plots to government employees as per their posts in 2001-02 and judicial officers were also included in it.

“Under the scheme,it is mandatory for the state government to take a decision on an application for the plot allotment within 120 days of its receipt. Yagnik had submitted her application in 2008. However,to date,the application is pending,” said Gandhi,adding that their petition has sought a direction to the Revenue Department to either decide the application or allot the residential plot.

According to Gandhi,Yagnik had mentioned Manipur or Chenpur villages on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city as her preferences for a residential plot.

In her petition,Gandhi said,Yagnik also stated that the state government has cleared the applications of High Court judges and its other employees,but it is yet to clear the applications of 29 district judges and some other state government employees.

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