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HC seeks AAP govt's stand on pleas against Rs 1 cr to Grewal's

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The Delhi high Court today sought the AAP government’s response on PILs challenging its decision to award Rs one crore compensation and a job to the family of an ex-armyman Ram Kishan Grewal, who allegedly committed suicide over the OROP issue.

“File your (Delhi government) response if any,” a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said while posting the matter for hearing to March 21.

The court, which in November last year had said that it will pass its order on the pleas, has now fixed the matter in March on the ground that it will take up the issue along with two similar petitions pending before it for consideration.

The bench had on November 7 last year reserved its verdict for today on two PILs, which the AAP government had termed as premature.

The Delhi government had defended its decision to award Rs one crore to the family of Grewal, saying it was a “policy matter” which has to go to the Lieutenant Governor (LG) for approval.

The plea by advocate Avadh Kaushik, who has also opposed the government’s decision to declare Grewal as ‘martyr’, has said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should not “glorify” the “act of suicide”.

Another petitioner Puran Chand Arya, through his counsel Abhishek Choudhary, has sought a direction to restrain the government from going ahead with the decision till the court pronounced its order.

Retired Army Subedar Grewal on November 1 last year had allegedly committed suicide over ‘One Rank, One Pension'(OROP) issue during a protest.

One out of the two petitions which will also come up for hearing on March 21 has challenged the city government’s decision to declare as a “martyr” a Rajasthan-based- politician-cum- farmer Gajendra Singh Kalyanwat who had allegedly hanged himself at an AAP rally at Jantar Mantar on April 22, 2015.

The incident had occurred during an anti-land bill rally called by Aam Aadmi Party.

The other PIL by one Rajiv Singh has sought a direction to prohibit holding of dharna by NGOs, social groups and others and also restraining them from “shouting slogans, distributing pamphlets and littering at Jantar Mantar Road”. (More)

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Source: dnaindia.com