MUMBAI: The principal secretary (Consumer Protection) will remain present before the Bombay high court on Friday to respond to its show cause notice for not taking the court's orders seriously and failing to present a concrete scheme to lay down norms of selection and procedure to be followed for appointment of non-official members to the State and district consumer protection councils.
A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice M S Sonak will hear a public interest litigation by Mumbai Grahak Panchanyat on non-appointment of presidents and members in 19 district forums and delaying setting up of Consumer Protection Councils at the district and State level. On June 28 the court had directed constitution of councils and on July 29, 2013 it had directed the government to come with a concrete scheme for laying down norms for selection of non-official members,.
At the last hearing on August 12 , 2013 the Panchayat's advocate Shirish Deshpande told the court that the government has not finalised the policy regarding selection and procedure of non-official members and not paid the heed to the HC's court orders. Government pleader S S Shinde submitted that after the July 29 , 2013 hearing, he immediately sought the response from the Consumer Protection Department. It appears the order of the court is not being taken seriously,'' said the judges directing the principal secretary to remain present on August 29, 2013 and show cause why steps should not be taken against him for contempt of court. The matter is placed on board on Friday.
The judges said they are constrained to take recourse to coercive steps'' since the PIL is pending since December 2011 and in spite of orders passed no concrete steps have been taken by the State government. The judges said they were distressed'' that appointment to district consumer councils have been made at Nashik and Aurangabad where all members are being distributed between the ruling coalition. The judges said this renders completely negative the whole object of constitution of the councils where members are expected to perform independent supervisory role. Also, that it is evident that entire process followed by the State government is against the letter and spirit of the Consumer Protection Act and strongly deprecated by the court.'' Adjourning the hearing, the judges took on record the notification on appointments made in Nashik and Ahmednagar.
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