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12. The appellant has also moved number of miscellaneous applications. One such application was filed in the Court on 22.08.2017 against Estate Officer Mr. Rehman for initiating proceedings under Section 340 Cr.P.C. against him. Only allegation against Ld. Estate Officer is that he had negated the legislative intents of the rule making body of MCD, which vide its various Resolutions passed from time to time and more recently Resolution No. 494 dated 21.11.2005, had reiterated its intentions to give benefits to the traders/occupants of its various commercial properties by providing them the option to convert their license to longterm leases. Hon'ble High Court of Delhi in W.P.(C)3146/2015 has held that the only right which the petitioners could have claimed and claim was under the MCD resolutions No. 494 and 495 dated 29th November, 2005 but which resolutions, according to the North DMC, were never operationalized and did not come into effect. It is not the case of the petitioner that the benefit thereof was/has been given to any other person. In the light of the position of law as discussed by me hereinabove, the said resolutions were in any case contrary to law and discriminatory and arbitrary and cannot be enforced. Since these resolutions bearing Nos. 494 & 495 have been declared contrary to law, discriminatory and arbitrary, the appellant could not have been granted any benefit on the basis of these resolutions. Hence, Ld. Estate Officer had not committed any contempt by not relying upon said resolutions. This application under Section 340 Cr.P.C is not maintainable and same is hereby dismissed.
13. Another application was filed on 22.08.2017 under Section 340 Cr.P.C. for initiating proceedings against Sh. Bijender Singh, the Superintendent Land & Estate Department MCD Civic Centre, for alleged perjury committed by him. There is no specific allegation against Sh.Bijender Singh in the entire body of the application and it is only mentioned that there is mismanagement in his office due to which the applicant had suffered a lot of mental trauma and agony regarding deposit/return of certain bank drafts, so the Superintendent Land & Estate Department, MCD Civic Centre Sh. Bijender Sijngh should be penalised and perjury proceedings be initiated against them. There is no specific allegation against Sh. Bijeder Singh except that his office had allegedly harassed the appellant and there was allegation of mismanagement in the said office. This is no basis for initiating proceedings under Section 340 Cr.P.C. Application is accordingly dismissed.
14. There is another application, which was also filed on 22.08.2017 under Section 340 Cr.P.C. for initiating proceedings against Additional commissioner Sh. A.S. Asthir for perjury committed by him. Allegation against Sh. A.S. Asthir are mentioned in para No. 13 of this application wherein it is stated that the complainant met Sh. A.S. Asthir many a times and showed him letter issued by the department regarding acceptance of provisional allotment in anticipation of approval tender for Kiosk/Dhaba in Hall No.1, Municipal Market, Karol Bagh on dated 06.10.1997 and she had also written letter dated 18.05.2016 and had already deposited drafts, which were returned for revalidation and same were revalidated by the Bank and that shows mismanagement in his office, due to which the complainant/appellant was harassed and she suffered a lot of mental trauma and agony. In my opinion, if the appellant had suffered mental trauma and agony due to alleged mismanagement on the part of office of Additional Commissioner, this is no ground to initiate proceedings under Section 340 Cr.P.C. and application is accordingly dismissed.
15. Two applications were filed on 14.03.2018 and 03.02.2018 under Section 340 Cr.P.C. against Smt. Anita Vaid, Assistant commissioner, Land & Estate and also for initiating proceedings under Sections 10/12 of Contempt of Courts Act against her. In the application filed on 14.03.2018, it is mentioned that Smt. Anita Vaid had filed an application under Section 151 CPC for preponement of next date of hearing on behalf of North DMC wherein it was alleged that applicant was enjoying a stay order granted by Ld. Predecessor of this Court against the eviction order, so the proceedings be initiated against her. In another application filed on 03.02.2018, it is stated that proceedings may be initiated against Smt. Anita Ved and officials of NDMC for filing false and frivolous application along with the affidavit and misleading the Court, which resulted into putting allegation on the District Court, which had granted stay order and application was moved by officials of the NDMC just to blackmail and harass the appellant and application was not bonafide. All the facts and circumstances mentioned in the application were already part of the record and nothing new was mentioned in the application under Section 151 CPC by the North DMC. Moreover, the parties have a legal right to move a preponement application and it is for the court to consider the application on merits and if there is any valid ground, the matter would be preponed otherwise, said application would be dismissed. Applicant has failed to make out a case to proceed under Section 340 Cr.P.C. and also under Sections 10 & 12 of Contempt of Courts Act against Smt. Anita Vaid and the M.C.D. officials. Hence, applications are not maintainable and are hereby dismissed.