Maninderjit Singh Bitta vs Union Of India & Ors on 7 April, 2011
The last and the most disobedient category is of the States
which have not even initiated any process for compliance of their
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statutory duty, obedience to the orders of this Court and
implementation of a duly notified scheme. Till date, several of these
States have not even approached this Court, during this long period,
for any extension of time giving reasons for non-compliance of the
orders of this Court or the statutory provisions as they have not filed
any application for the same to enable them to fulfill their statutory
obligations and obedience of the orders of the Court. The irresistible
and only conclusion that can be drawn from the facts on record and
the above circumstances is that it is an intentional disobedience of
the orders of the Court by the concerned Authorities in the respective
States. The obedience of orders of this Court is necessary for
preserving the integrity of this constitutional institution and to put
forward this point reference can be made to the following paragraph
appearing in the judgment of this Court in the case of Achhan Rizvi
(II) v. State of U.P. [(1994) 6 SCC 752] :