PETITIONER Www/og . v , '" a 7 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR 7 DIVISION BENCH Coram : HON’BLE SHR! RAJEEV GUPTA, CJ & HON’BLE $HR§ sUNiL KUMAR slNHA, J.‘ Writ Petition 1P.i.L.) (PR1 No. 3494 of zoos Murari Lal Gupta, aged about 50 years, S/c Late Shri Bhagirath La! Gupta, R/o Sewa Kunj Road, I Raigarh (C.G.) Versus 1. Union of lndia Through: Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Krishi Bhavan, New Dethi. Director; Agricuiture & Horticulture, Raipur (C.G.) Managing Director; Chhattisgarh Rajya Bee} Evam Krishi Vikas Nigam Ltd. “Beej Bhawan” Telibandha, GE. Road, Raipur ‘ “(c.G.) 4. State, of Chhattisgarh, Through: Secretary, Department of Agricuiture,‘ D.K.S. Bhawan, Raipur (C.G.) ' ‘ ’ Writ Petition Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India Shri Saiim QUazi, counsel for the petitioner. None for respondents No.1 & 3 i RESPONDENTS Shri SumeshBajaj, Government Advocate for respondents No. 2 & 4 ORDER (5m August, 2008) The following order of the Court was passed ~by Rajeev Gupta, C.J. i Learned counsei for the parties are heard on admission. .,-\ rrprietor and editor of a newspaper, namely — Dainik Ajit’Vani 2) Petitioner Murari Lai Gupta claiming himseif to'be the p has med this writ petition styled as ‘Pubiic interest Litigattcin' tor the foiiowing reiiefs: “10.1 it is, kindly prayed that this Hon’bie Court may kindly be pleased to call for the entire records concerning petitioner's case from the possession of the respondents for its kind perusal. ll " ‘ 102 lt is respectfully prayed that this‘Hon’ble ‘ may kindiy issue writ of mandamus directing the respondent no. 1r and 4 to constitute a committee to inquire about the corruption prevailing in the aforesaid scheme. 10.3 The petitioner further prays for issuance of suitable writ/dtreotions forrespond‘ent no. 4 to initiate departmental enquiry against the erring officers’and to lodge a compiaiht against the guilty so that the erring officers can b prosecuted. 10.4 Any other reliefirelief’s- which this Hon’ble Court may thing fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case with cost o thepetition may atso please be granted to the petitioner." 3 Petitioner in substance is seeking a direction :to ) respondents No.1 & 4 to constitute a committee for enquiring into the corruption prevailing in the implementation of Nationai of Agricutture and i . , {Cooperation of the Union of lndia. i 4) For ascertaining the correctness of the allegations made by the petitioner in this writ petition, a fact‘finding enquiry Would be necessary. ‘ Such a fact finding enquiry can be better conducted by an agency iike ‘Centrai Vigilance Commission’, iwhich has its own investigation wing. i i l l l l g l E l l :Horticutture Mission by department .x e f @ 5) ' in this view of the matter, it would be appropriate far the petitioner to approach ‘Centra! Vigiiance Commission' or any other similar agency for the redressai of the petitioner’s ievances projected in this \rvrit petition. r 6) With the above observation, the writ petitions stands k i pi”; sd/— ‘ Yr Kumar Sinhfafi Yr ‘Sunil Judge a ”a. x¥1e’;a/