Apex Court takes cognisance of illegal occupation of government bungalows
23 Jul, 2014A list of 22 The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), and any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act. individuals comprising of politicians and bureaucrats who continue to occupy the government accommodation despite end of their term was provided by the government in response to an RTI application filed by activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal. The same was widely reported in media including this website link -
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Citing the news report that named former ministers Lalu Prasad, A Raja, S M Krishna, Mukul Roy, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Subodh Kant Sahai, Mukul Wasnik, Harish Rawat and others as illegal occupiers of ministerial bungalows, the former CAG Vinod Rai wrote a letter to the Supreme Court. Taking suo motu cognisance of the letter alleging that the former Union ministers and retired bureaucrats were occupying the government accommodation against the law, a three bench of the Apex Court headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha sought the response from the centre on this issue. The bench included justices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman. Senior advocate Shyam Divan was appointed as amicus curiae to assist the court in the matter.
On July 7, 2013, the Supreme Court had given a verdict setting a time-frame up to two months for the people concerned to vacate the official accommodation after the end of their entitlement period. Use of reasonable force for their eviction was also allowed.