In 1991, while hearing the case of Narayana Reddy versus the State of Karnataka, the High Court observed: “In case of house building societies formed in respect of employees of any organisation or industry the membership should be confined to the employees who may continue as members even after retirement and the societies should be prohibited from enrolling outsiders as members.”
As said in the first report, all the judges have been allotted sites at the Judicial Layout in total disregard of this judgement. And among the judges who have accepted the sites is former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court M Rama jois, who incidentally passed the aforementioned judgement.
Jois was allotted site number 1422 meauring 8,051 sq ft on April 18, 1996 (after his judgement) for Rs 2,46,240.
When the authors had contacted him for his opinion on Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge's dauther having been allotted a site in the same Layout, he had said: "As held in my judgement, any particular society is formed for a specific purpose and thereby, must adhere to the same while allotting the site. A third party cannot be allotted the site."
And on asked whether High Court and Supreme Court judges were members of the judicial department, he said: "...Strictly speaking, we (High Court and Supreme Court judges) are not employees of the judicial department."
But as soon as the matter about him having a site was brought up, he, very cautiously took shelter under the Subramani versus Union India case's petition being dismissed by the High Court of Karnataka. However, that he cannot take shelter under that judgement has been reported in the previous report in the words of the judge who passed that order. (read Justice Saldana's remarks in the previous two stories)
Hopefully, the concerned will take notice of the violations and initiate actions to correct the same...
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