HC directs payment without revenue stamp

CUTTACK, DEC. 13. In a significant order, the Orissa High Court today directed the State Treasury to make all payments due to individuals without revenue stamp in view of the continuing nationwide strike by the postal employees, which entered its ninth day today.

A Division Bench, comprising acting Chief Justice, Mr. R.K. Patra and Mr. Justice Choudhury P.K. Mishra, passed this interim order on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which alleged that revenue stamps were being sold at Rs. 50 per ticket in black market in different parts of Orissa.

Despite the on-going strike by the High Court lawyers in protest against imposition of professional tax by the Government, the court took cognizance of a letter addressed to the acting Chief Justice as a PIL and directed the State Home Secretary to take steps to stop sale of revenue stamps in black market. The Bench issued show cause notices to the Secretary, Union Department of Post, Chief Post Master General of Orissa, State Home Secretary and the Director of State Treasury by treating them as opposite parties in the petition filed by Sukhrendu Sekhar Mishra and Kashinath Swain. The opposite parties have been directed to show cause by Dec. 20.

- UNI

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