Bombay High Court Upholds Summary Nature of Disqualification Enquiry Under Section 16 of Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act; Rejects Member's Claim for Cross-Examination of Talathi. The Court held that a member facing disqualification for encroachment is only entitled to a reasonable opportunity of hearing and cannot convert the summary enquiry into an adversarial one by seeking oral evidence and cross-examination....
The present writ petition arose from a disqualification proceeding initiated before the Additional Collector, Nagpur, under Section 16 of the Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act, 1959. The original app...
