07-03-2007, 01:03 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Pratibha holds office of profit: PIL
Shuja-ul-Haq | New Delhi
Petition in HC seeks her disqualification
<b>After facing charges of involvement in a series of irregularities committed by her relatives and her several trusts, sugar factory and bank UPA presidential nominee Pratibha Patil is now confronted by the ghost of Office of Profit. A petition filed in the Delhi High Court on Monday claimed that Patil was ineligible to contest the Presidential elections as she was still holding an Office of Profit.</b>
<b>"Patil is still holding the post of Managing Trustee of the Shram Sadhna Bombay Trust at Government Colony, Bandra East, Mumbai,</b>" states the petition filed by Sanjay Tiwari Ujjala on behalf of his NGO Indraprastha People.
The petition states that the trust is the controlling and supervising authority for Shram Sadhna Trust College of Engineering and Technology, Bomgori, Jalgaon and comes under the control and supervision of the Government of Maharastra. Based on these allegations the petition states, "Thus Smt Patil is still holding an Office of Profit under the Government of Maharastra, which is in clear violation of Clause 12 of rules and regulations."
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The petition has sought the court's attention towards the point that if Patil is elected as President of India thousands of people who have lost their money in "her" bank (Pratibha Mahila Cooperative Bank) will never get justice, as there is no provision in the constitution to file a suit against the President.</b>
"Muktabai Sugar Mill and the employees of the same would have no way to get justice after such incarnation," said the petition while drawing the court's attention towards the plight of the employees of the mill and the bank once run by Patil.
Praying to the court to issue a set of directions to Election Commission of India to disqualify Patil as a candidate from presidential elections Ujjala has also filed a separate petition in the High Court making Chief Vigilance Commissioner and Ministry of Home Affairs respondents. In the second petition he has asked for an enquiry on the allegations against the UPA nominee.
The petitioner states that he had sent a letter to the CVC on June 30 praying for an enquiry into the allegations made against Patil. In the complaint letter sent to the CVC the petitioner had mentioned about Patil's involvement in the Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank at Jalgaon, Maharastra.
The letter had also mentioned that members of Patil's family, who were on the board of the bank, were involved in irregularities. Aggrieved by the unresponsive attitude of the CVC, Ujjala had chosen to knock on the doors of the court. "Unfortunately the respondents have not taken any actiont. The respondents are not entertaining the complaint nor are they paying any heed to the same," alleges Ujjala in the petition against CVC. While praying for directions to the Government the petition states that the respondents were bound to take action as per law on the allegations made against Patil. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Pratibha holds office of profit: PIL
Shuja-ul-Haq | New Delhi
Petition in HC seeks her disqualification
<b>After facing charges of involvement in a series of irregularities committed by her relatives and her several trusts, sugar factory and bank UPA presidential nominee Pratibha Patil is now confronted by the ghost of Office of Profit. A petition filed in the Delhi High Court on Monday claimed that Patil was ineligible to contest the Presidential elections as she was still holding an Office of Profit.</b>
<b>"Patil is still holding the post of Managing Trustee of the Shram Sadhna Bombay Trust at Government Colony, Bandra East, Mumbai,</b>" states the petition filed by Sanjay Tiwari Ujjala on behalf of his NGO Indraprastha People.
The petition states that the trust is the controlling and supervising authority for Shram Sadhna Trust College of Engineering and Technology, Bomgori, Jalgaon and comes under the control and supervision of the Government of Maharastra. Based on these allegations the petition states, "Thus Smt Patil is still holding an Office of Profit under the Government of Maharastra, which is in clear violation of Clause 12 of rules and regulations."
<b>
The petition has sought the court's attention towards the point that if Patil is elected as President of India thousands of people who have lost their money in "her" bank (Pratibha Mahila Cooperative Bank) will never get justice, as there is no provision in the constitution to file a suit against the President.</b>
"Muktabai Sugar Mill and the employees of the same would have no way to get justice after such incarnation," said the petition while drawing the court's attention towards the plight of the employees of the mill and the bank once run by Patil.
Praying to the court to issue a set of directions to Election Commission of India to disqualify Patil as a candidate from presidential elections Ujjala has also filed a separate petition in the High Court making Chief Vigilance Commissioner and Ministry of Home Affairs respondents. In the second petition he has asked for an enquiry on the allegations against the UPA nominee.
The petitioner states that he had sent a letter to the CVC on June 30 praying for an enquiry into the allegations made against Patil. In the complaint letter sent to the CVC the petitioner had mentioned about Patil's involvement in the Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank at Jalgaon, Maharastra.
The letter had also mentioned that members of Patil's family, who were on the board of the bank, were involved in irregularities. Aggrieved by the unresponsive attitude of the CVC, Ujjala had chosen to knock on the doors of the court. "Unfortunately the respondents have not taken any actiont. The respondents are not entertaining the complaint nor are they paying any heed to the same," alleges Ujjala in the petition against CVC. While praying for directions to the Government the petition states that the respondents were bound to take action as per law on the allegations made against Patil. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->