JUDGMENT :

Petitioner challenges orders issued by the Ombudsman for Local Self Government Institutions in Complaint No.486/2019 and also seeks for a direction to dismiss the said complaint. A declaration has also been sought that the first respondent has no jurisdiction to entertain the complaint of the second respondent or to issue orders in the nature of those impugned in this writ petition.

2. Petitioner claims to have succeeded to one cent of property of his father, over which a house is situated. Alleging that petitioner has not constructed a soak pit and is discharging septic waste into the property of the second respondent, a complaint was filed before the Ombudsman, pointing out that, despite complaints to the Panchayat, no action has been initiated.

3. Even though the Panchayat Secretary filed a statement before the Ombudsman that earlier, petitioner's father used to discharge waste into the second respondent's property, at present, there was no such nuisance still, by Ext.P4 order, the Ombudsman directed the Panchayat Secretary to inspect the property and to give instructions to install a sewage treatment facility in the petitioner's property and also directed to ensure that