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High Court issues
stay order on allotment of LIG houses in Dugri
WSN Network
 Ludhiana
: Bringing a sigh of relief to several 1984 anti-Sikh massacre
victims, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has this week restrained
the
Punjab
government from allotting or selling 85 low-income group (LIG)
houses in 504 LIG, Dugri Phase-II of
Ludhiana.
A division bench
comprising Acting Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice A K Mittal
also issued notices to the Punjab state for November 30.
In its public
interest litigation (PIL), the Danga Peerit Welfare Society in
Ludhiana sought directions to the state government to allot the 85
LIG houses in 504 LIG Dugri Phase-II to only the pogrom victims.
Advocate Vikram
Bali, counsel for the petitioner society, submitted that the society
had learnt that the said LIG houses would not be allotted to the
victims on the ground that these had not been included in the
October 21 and December 2, 2008 Cabinet decisions.
The counsel
further stated that this was being done despite the fact that the
same houses had already been earmarked for allotment to
pogrom-affected persons as per the decisions of the Punjab
Government.
The petitioner
further contended that for allotment of these houses, the state
government had invited applications from the pogrom-affected persons
or families in 2000 and that the applications had already been
screened by committees constituted for the purpose.
Only the results
of the interviews remained to be notified and the selected persons
were issued allotment letters in terms of the August 30, 2001,
decision taken at the level of the Chief Minister, the petitioner
society added.
The society also
prayed that the state be directed to faithfully implement the
decisions taken on August 30, 2001, in the meeting presided over by
the Chief Minister and attended by the representatives of the
petitioner society.
As per the
petition, there are about 30,000 pogrom-affected families in
Punjab.
The petitioner
society has been recognised by the State Government as the
representative body of the November 1984 riot affected persons and
in that capacity it has been associated by the state government in
matters concerning the pogrom victims.
25
November 2009
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