Delhi High Court reserved its order on a plea by AAP MP Raghav Chadha challenging the trial court’s decision to vacate an interim order.
The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on a plea by AAP MP Raghav Chadha challenging the trial court’s decision to vacate an interim order which stopped the Rajya Sabha secretariat from evicting him from the federal government bungalow allotted to him.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, after finishing the proceedings, orally requested the counsel for the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to not take any motion within the matter until the excessive court docket has delivered its judgment. “I am not passing any interim order but till I decide it, nothing shall be done in the meantime,” the choose mentioned.
While the counsel for Chadha submitted he has already filed his temporary submissions within the case, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat’s lawyer mentioned he’ll submit his synopsis by Friday night.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Chadha, mentioned the AAP leader has been directed to look earlier than the property officer pursuant to Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act proceedings tomorrow.
He mentioned he proposes to request the property officer to defer the proceedings because the excessive court docket has reserved its judgment within the matter.
Chadha has challenged the trial court’s October 5 order during which it noticed he can’t declare an absolute proper to proceed to occupy the federal government bungalow throughout his whole tenure as a Rajya Sabha MP even after the cancellation of allotment.
The trial court docket had made the remark whereas vacating an interim order handed on April 18 which directed the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to not oust Chadha from the federal government bungalow. It was famous Chadha was granted the interim reduction with out the due strategy of legislation.
Chadha’s counsel had contended earlier than the excessive court docket that he was a sufferer of “selective targeting” as he was a vocal opposition member of Parliament. Chadha mentioned he was the one sitting lawmaker within the Rajya Sabha ever to have been sought to be evicted from the bungalow allotted to him.
He had mentioned the allotment of lodging is an train of guided discretion and is made after considering the circumstances peculiar to the MP involved, and in train of this discretion, out of 245 sitting MPs within the Rajya Sabha, 115 have been granted lodging above their ‘default’ entitlement.
His counsel had instructed the excessive court docket that the MP had been supplied Z+ safety in view of threats, and a big contingent of safety personnel was required to be deployed at his residence. The personnel can’t be accommodated within the bungalow earlier allotted to him at Pandara Park. Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities has accorded Z+ safety to Chadha who’s a Rajya Sabha MP from there.
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Chadha was on July 6 final yr allotted a ‘Type 6’ bungalow at Pandara Park however he made a illustration to the chairman of the Rajya Sabha on August 29 requesting for a ‘Type 7’ lodging. He was then allotted one other bungalow on Pandara Road from the Rajya Sabha pool.
However, in March this yr, the allotment was cancelled.
As a first-time MP, Chadha is entitled to a Type-5 lodging within the regular course, in response to the Rajya Sabha Members Handbook launched in April 2022.
The handbook says MPs who’re former Union Cabinet Ministers, former Governors or former Chief Ministers, and former Lok Sabha Speakers, are entitled to Type-7 bungalows, the second largest class obtainable to Rajya Sabha MPs.
