Court No. - 39

Case :- WRIT - C No. - 12881 of 2020

Petitioner :- Anamika Shukla

Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Ram Naresh Shukla

Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.

Hon'ble Ashwani Kumar Mishra,J.

Following orders were passed by this Court in the matter on

5.10.2020:-

''Petitioner is the elected Pradhan and is aggrieved by the order of

District Magistrate, Hamirpur dated 8.7.2020, whereby her financial and

administrative powers have been ceased. The charge against the

petitioner is of financial embezzlement to the tune of Rs.17,58,000/-.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that financial irregularities/

embezzlement was done by the Panchayat Secretary, who had charge in

respect of two villages. In respect of first village it was found that nine

cheques were issued in favour of two persons namely Munsif Farooqui

and Sanjay Kumar. On enquiry it was found that the illegal payments were

fraudulently made to these very persons. Attention of the Court has been

invited to page 34 of the writ petition, which shows that petitioner also

made a complaint against the Panchayat Secretary by stating that he is

maintaining the cheque-book an