Expansion Madhya Pradesh High Court has taken serious note of non-removal of encroachments from the ponds of Rewa district despite the order. While hearing the contempt petition, High Court Chief Justice Ravi Vijay Kumar Malimath and Justice Vishal Mishra’s double bench has issued notices to the seven District Collectors posted since the year and sought answers. . The next hearing on the petition has been fixed after four weeks.

Collectors had ignored the court order

In the contempt petition filed by petitioner Shyamanandan Mishra, it was said that earlier he had filed a petition in the High Court demanding protection of ponds in Rewa district. While hearing the petition, the High Court had ordered the District Collector to remove encroachments from all the ponds in Rewa district and stop illegal mining. The High Court had fixed the date for this till March 31. Apart from this, orders were also issued to present the Action Taken Report to the District Collector. Due to non-compliance of the order of the High Court, the said contempt petition was filed in the year .

Due to encroachment in the ponds, their existence is ending. Residential colonies were built on many ponds. At the same time, farming has started in ponds in many places.

‘gross contempt of order appears to be committed’
During the last hearing, the Jugalpeeth had told that the order of the High Court has not been implemented by the District Collector. Taking this seriously, the Jugal Peeth said in its order that 31 on behalf of all the Collectors posted since January 31 There seems to be gross contempt. The Jugalpeeth had directed to present the list of names of all the collectors posted during this tenure. , During the hearing, it was told by the government that 31 encroachments have not been removed from the ponds. Apart from this, a list of the names of the collectors was also presented before the Jugal Peeth. Making all the collectors non-applicants in the petition, the Jugal Peeth has asked why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them. The non-applicant collectors have been given four weeks time to submit their reply. Advocate Nityanand Mishra appeared on behalf of the petitioner.

2014
Notice issued to these Collectors

Collectors of Rewa on whom the sword of contempt action is hanging, in the year 2014 includes the name of the collector till now. These include Shivnarayan Rupala, Rahul Jain, Preeti Maithil Nayak, Om Prakash Srivastava, Basant Kurre, Dr. Ilaiyaraaja T and Manoj Pushpa. ,