BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, Nov. 27: The Delhi high court on Monday, gave a week to the postmaster general of Delhi to explain the delay in delivery of mail that has been piling in different sorting offices here.
A division bench comprising justice Mohinder Narain and justice Cyriac Joseph also directed postmaster general, Ms Padma Balasubramaniam, to be present on the next hearing on December 8.
The bench also issued directions to send letters of request to the editors of The Times of India and The Pioneer newspapers to submit the photographs of piling mail bags carried in their city’s edition.
The bench also requested Zee television to submit a copy of the video tape of the programme on the postal delay, recently telecast by them.
The Delhi high court had issued notices on November 23 to the Union government, the director general of post and telegraph and New Delhi’s postmaster general to explain why a public interest petitioner filed by a Delhi resident, Mr. S.P. Singh, on the continued delay in postal delivery should not be admitted for hearing. The court had directed them to file their replies by Monday and had also asked the postmaster general to be present before the court on the next hearing.
Mr. Ashok Aggarwal, the counsel for the petitioner, had alleged that over 50,000 mail bags were lying unsorted in different sorting offices of the postal department for the last six months. He had also submitted to the court that the postal department and other concerned agencies had failed to take action regarding the unnecessary delay in postal-delivery.
TIMES OF INDIA 28.11.1995
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