Gujarat High Court: Gujarat High Court orders GSLSA to pay compensation to petitioners for negligence

Ahmedabad: High Court of Gujarat ordered the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority (GSLSA) in order to compensate several petitioners financial loss suffered by them due to the negligence of the court staff in failing to invest the complainants’ money in the bank.
Since the complainants were entitled to compensation for the loss they suffered and the courts did not have any funds available for the purpose, the Supreme Court first approached the State Government for confirmation as to whether it would bear the burden of compensation, but it did not receive any response. Accordingly, the Supreme Court directed the legal services body to pay compensation to the complainants along with interest.
This case involved several landowners from Kheda district whose plots were acquired for the Narmada project. As the compensation dispute dragged on in the courts for several years, the land acquisition officer deposited the awarded amount — Rs 8.38 lakh — with the judicial registry based on an order passed by the apex court, which had also directed the judicial registry in 2005 to invest the amount in a nationalised bank. The judicial registry failed to invest the amount and the landowners approached the HC in 2008. In the inquiry, three members of the judicial staff of Nadiad were found negligent and the loss was calculated at Rs 2.46 lakh.
The court ordered GSLSA to make the payment.

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