ITANAGAR, 12 Feb: Following a court order, the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) district administration sealed the office of the PWD’s western zone (WZ) chief engineer (CE), located in Mowb-II here, on Saturday.
Papum Pare (Yupia) District Judge Nani Grayu had last month passed an order to attach/seal the office, in view of a money execution petition (No 04/2019) filed by M/s Tama Fabrication Works against the state of Arunachal Pradesh and others.
The execution petition had been filed by the petitioner through its counsel J Doji for payment of arbitral award of Rs 3,60,28,997 and interest thereof on 21 October, 2019.
On receipt of the notice, the judgment debtors/department had filed a reply through their engaged counsel.
During the course of hearing of the case for the last two years, the court had given enough time to the judgment debtors/CE PWD (WZ) either to pay the amount to the petitioner or to deposit the amount to the court, which was not availed by the department.
On 6 April, 2021, the court directed the judgment debtors to submit their movable and immovable properties to the court, which can be attached/sealed and auctioned for recovery of the arbitral award amount.
The judgment debtors filed a list of property details, disclosing the assets of the department, in an affidavit showing the main office complex of the PWD WZ on 10 and 14 December, 2021.
On 4 January, the court had directed the DC to carry out the formalities of attachment/sealing of the entire building of the CE within two weeks and to submit the compliance report to the court.
“However, due to non-compliance, the court again conducted a hearing on 10 February and directed the DC to carry out the attachment/sealing of the building within a week,” said Doji.
The judge had also sent a copy of the order, along with the notice, to the PWD WZ CE for the purpose of proclamation to sell the attached/sealed property by way of public auction.
