The court docket directed that the petition be transmitted to the Regulation Secretary (File)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Excessive Court docket has noticed that regardless of repeated instructions to the AAP authorities to clear the skilled payments of legal professionals employed by it, the identical was not being executed as advocates have been approaching the court docket for aid.
Justice Prathiba M Singh stated a division bench of the Excessive Court docket listening to a PIL for clearing payments of presidency legal professionals had final 12 months directed the Delhi authorities to pay dues pending since earlier than February 1, 2020.
Subsequently, orders for clearing payments of particular person legal professionals have been additionally handed by single choose benches on the pleas moved by advocates, the court docket noticed.
“Regardless of the identical, it seems that the payments aren’t being cleared and legal professionals are being compelled to file writ petitions,” it stated and added that “the current petition is yet one more case filed in opposition to the Delhi authorities in search of fee {of professional} payments of the petitioner, who’s a lawyer”.
The court docket was listening to the plea moved by Pranay Ranjan in search of clearing of his skilled payments.
Mr Ranjan instructed the court docket that after submitting the petition, his payments of 2019 have been cleared, however not of 2018 and the excellent quantity was Rs 3.46 lakh.
The court docket directed that “the petition be transmitted to the Regulation Secretary, GNCTD”.
“It’s directed that the payments of the petitioner (Ranjan), topic to verification, shall be cleared inside a interval of 30 days,” it added.
The court docket additionally permitted him to maneuver an utility if the dues weren’t cleared and warned the Delhi authorities that if such a scenario have been to come up, it would additionally direct fee of curiosity on the excellent dues and impose prices.