{"id":238148,"date":"2020-10-29T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=238148"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:36:39","slug":"ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Orissa High Court: <\/strong>A Division Bench of Mohammed Rafiq and B. R. Sarangi, JJ.,\u00a0 dismissed the petition and vacated the interim order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The facts of the case are such that the petitioner is a private limited company, registered under Companies Act was awarded the work \u201cConstruction of HL bridge over river Suktel on Tamian to Mundalsar road in the district of Bolangir under Biju Setu Yojana\u201d vide agreement dated 26-02-2014 and the completion date was fixed to 25-02-2016 but it was completed before scheduled dated and handed over on 07-09-2015. Once the work completed and it was open for public transportation few horizontal cracks were to be seen and while the petitioner company was called for restoration work, the nationwide lockdown was announced and due to it being left unattended in the middle of the work, \u2018span\u2019 collapsed killing and injuring two persons respectively. Consequently, the petitioner was blacklisted and charged under various sections of the Penal Code, 1860 which stands challenged and pending adjudication. However, now Lokayukta has registered suo motu case against the petitioners and observed that a recently constructed bridge was collapsed resulting in death of two labourers and demanded a fair enquiry to be submitted exercising its power under Section 20(6) of the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014, and directed to file status report of the same within a period of three months from the date of passing of the order. Hence the instant application was filed challenging the order of Lokayukta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the petitioner submitted that as there are petitions pending adjudication before Court and the petitioner is also facing criminal charges, Lokayukta also causing an enquiry is prejudicial to the interest of the petitioner and the order passed is without complying the principles of natural justice and, thereby, the said order cannot sustain in the eye of law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the respondent the Lokayukta has only directed for investigation by the Vigilance authority, which is within the complete domain of the Lokayukta under Section 20(6) of the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014. If the Lokayukta has been empowered under the statute to issue such direction for investigation, the same should not be interfered with by this Court by passing an interim order and seeks that such interim order should be vacated and allow the Lokayukta to proceed with the matter in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court observed that even though the order of blacklisting the contractor has been challenged before this Court and the matter is pending adjudication, and the contractor himself is facing criminal case lodged against it for such negligence in the work, but that ipso facto cannot disentitle the Lokayukta to cause an enquiry under the provisions of the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 for alleged corruption in the matter of execution of the work itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court held that if the direction has been given to find out the lapses caused on the part of the government servant and such direction has been issued under Section 20(6) of the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014, this Court does not find any illegality or irregularity by issuing such direction by the Lokayukta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above, petition is not entertained and accordingly dismissed.[Ram Kumar Agrawal Engineers (P) Ltd. v. Odisha Lokayukta,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/9FeBeV75\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Ori 774<\/b><\/a>, decided on 16-10-2020]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has put this story together<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of Mohammed Rafiq and B. R. Sarangi, JJ.,\u00a0 dismissed the petition and vacated the interim order. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[27634,2583,9672,43914],"class_list":["post-238148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-companies-act","tag-Investigation","tag-lokayukta","tag-odisha-lokayukta-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of Mohammed Rafiq and B. R. Sarangi, JJ.,\u00a0 dismissed the petition and vacated the interim order.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-29T04:30:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-06T06:36:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/orissa-high-court.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/\",\"name\":\"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-29T04:30:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-06T06:36:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/84e42bab48238baf12c7e33b3d9761fe\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/84e42bab48238baf12c7e33b3d9761fe\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e366be721c41333586de05faa13743195f5b142dcd7a015c6fabd2389521d0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e366be721c41333586de05faa13743195f5b142dcd7a015c6fabd2389521d0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_4\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014","og_description":"Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of Mohammed Rafiq and B. R. Sarangi, JJ.,\u00a0 dismissed the petition and vacated the interim order.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2020-10-29T04:30:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-11-06T06:36:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1330,"height":887,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/orissa-high-court.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","name":"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-10-29T04:30:15+00:00","dateModified":"2020-11-06T06:36:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/84e42bab48238baf12c7e33b3d9761fe"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/29\/ori-hc-matter-pending-adjudication-before-court-is-no-bar-for-lokayukta-to-exercise-its-powers-under-s-20-6-of-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ori HC | Matter pending adjudication before Court is no bar for Lokayukta to exercise its powers under S. 20 (6) of Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/84e42bab48238baf12c7e33b3d9761fe","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e366be721c41333586de05faa13743195f5b142dcd7a015c6fabd2389521d0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e366be721c41333586de05faa13743195f5b142dcd7a015c6fabd2389521d0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Editor"},"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_4\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":285781,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/03\/01\/orissa-hc-violated-principle-of-natural-justice-supreme-court-legal-research-legal-news-updates-pradeep-kumar-panigrahi-mla-lokayukta-section201-odisha-lokayukta-act-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":0},"title":"Supreme Court sets aside Orissa HC order against Lokayukta&#8217;s direction to conduct preliminary inquiry against MLA; says Natural Justice principles not followed","author":"Ridhi","date":"March 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the Odisha Lokayukta was not given any opportunity of being heard when the Division Bench of Orissa High Court set aside the inquiry order, the Supreme Court held the same as a manifest error in violation of the principles of natural justice.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-577.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":194414,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/03\/23\/why-have-you-not-appointed-a-lokayukta-yet-supreme-court-asks-12-states-uts\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":1},"title":"Why have you not appointed a Lokayukta yet? Supreme Court asks 12 States &#038; UTs","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"March 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: The bench of Ranjan Gogoi and R. Banumathi, JJ sought explanation from\u00a0the chief secretaries of 12 States and Union Territories as to why they have not appointed a Lokayukta yet.\u00a0Section 63 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, states that every state shall establish a body to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40061,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2016\/03\/21\/meghalaya-high-courts-act-of-taking-suo-motu-cognizance-in-matter-relating-to-validity-of-provisions-of-meghalaya-lokayukta-act-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":2},"title":"Meghalaya High Court\u2019s act of taking suo motu cognizance in matter relating to validity of provisions of Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014, unacceptable","author":"Sucheta","date":"March 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: Terming the act of Meghalaya High Court of taking up suo motu cognizance of appointment of Lokayukta and failure to constitute Meghalaya State Human Rights Commission to be sad scenario, definitely and absolutely an impermissible and unacceptable one, the bench of Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh, JJ\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":307107,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/11\/14\/bar-created-under-up-lokayukta-up-lokayuktas-act-review-decision-court-does-not-apply-high-court-allahabad-hc\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":3},"title":"Whether bar on review of decision by any Court under S.17 of UP Lokayukta and Up-Lokayuktas Act applies to High Court? Allahabad HC answers","author":"Apoorva","date":"November 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Allahabad High Court opined that the reasoning of the order dated 05-11-2019, that there is no \u2018cutting\u2019 or \u2018overwriting\u2019 in the petitioner\u2019s service book, does not close all avenues of inquiry.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"allahabad high court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/allahabad-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/allahabad-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/allahabad-high-court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/allahabad-high-court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":127591,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/04\/27\/the-lokpal-and-lokayukta-act-2013-is-an-eminently-workable-piece-of-legislation-fit-to-be-implemented\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":4},"title":"The Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013 is an eminently workable piece of legislation &#038; fit to be implemented","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"April 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: Directing the Union of India to implement the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013, the bench of Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha, JJ held that the Act as it stands today is an eminently workable piece of legislation and there is no justification to keep the enforcement of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":115311,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/03\/21\/the-relief-being-sought-is-the-litmus-test-for-determining-the-nature-of-a-writ-petition\/","url_meta":{"origin":238148,"position":5},"title":"The relief being sought is the litmus test for determining the nature of a writ petition","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"March 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: In the \u2018money for change of land use\u2019 scam involving Ram Kishan Fauji where it was alleged that no appeal lies against the order passed by the Single Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in exercise of criminal jurisdiction, the 3-Judge Bench of Dipak Misra, A.M.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5487.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}