HC slams authorites for not responding properly to queries

The Madras High Court today pulled up officials for not properly responding to the queries raised by it and submitting unnecessary details and orally observed that "the officers are unable to understand our orders."
The first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, said "an officer who is capable of understanding should file a compliance report dealing with those specific aspects raised in each of the paragraph in our order on August 20, 2015. We put the burden on the Additional Advocate General to ensure that the compliance report (is) properly affirmed before it is filed in court."

The first bench had on August 20 granted four weeks time to authorities to place before it the bar chart setting out the various stages for completion of the new building for Juvenile Justice Board at Madurai.
But in the affidavit filed by the Director of Social Defense there were details about the allocation of funds to the Trichy Government observation Home, among other things.
The bench observed that "our questions have not been answered by the counter-affidavit filed by authorities.... We find that the compliance report filed does not deal with the matter which was raised by us with regard to Madurai Juvenile Home. MR. R. Lalvena, Director of Social Defense, Chennai, is present in court and accepts this and request for 10 days more time. File an affidavit in respect of the above."

"As we proceed further, the position is no different. We would have expected that specific query raised in our order would have been answered dealing with those aspects rather than the general stories spun by the deponent."
"We find it complete wastage of judicial time. We thus reject the compliance report," the bench said.
The bench then directed the authorities to file an affidavit replying to its order dated August 20 within two weeks and for compliance to October 16.