The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Delhi Milk Scheme on a petition against stopping milk supply to a particular booth and cancelling its allotment on hypothetical grounds, depriving the allotee of his livelihood.
A bench of Justice V K Jain issued notice to the Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) on a petition filed by Santosh Kumar Jha challenging the cancellation of booth alloted to him and the milk supply to it depriving him of his livelihood.
"Issue notice to the respondent for February 26," the bench said.
DMS is a subordinate office of Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries with objective of supplying wholesome milk in Delhi at reasonable price.
Jha's counsel Jagdeep Sharma had told the bench that DMS had stopped the milk supply to the booth allotted to Jha and cancelled the allotment on hypothetical grounds accusing him of selling tobacco products and keeping an LPG cylinder in the booth.
The counsel said no show cause notice was given to him and the DMS did not even obey the high court order on his earlier petition asking them to give a reasoned order and not to stop milk supply.
In his petition, Jha said on July 15, 2004, he was allotted a DMS booth at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on depositing a bank guarantee and two sureties of Rs 20,000 and Rs 25,000 respectively.
The booth was removed from the area after some time and in May 2007 he was allotted another booth in Bharti Nagar, New Delhi. Till November 29, 2012, Jha "continued to run the booth and generate business for DMS by selling their products like milk and other dairy products".
