{"id":594613,"date":"2023-07-31T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594613"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T07:23:02","slug":"contracts-with-escom-kptcl-amount-to-office-of-profit-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/contracts-with-escom-kptcl-amount-to-office-of-profit-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Contracts with Escom\/KPTCL amount to office of profit: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalaburagi bench of the high court has said that holding contractors\u2019 licence and discharging contracts with escom\/KPTCL would amount to office of profit and would disqualify such licence holders under section 12(g) of the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The court said this while upholding the order of a civil court in Raichur which disqualified an electrical contractor as a member of Chandrabanda village panchayat.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner Manikyappa was elected as a member on December 30, 2020 and one Dastagir had challenged the election. It was contended that Manikyappa was holding an office of profit as he was a class-1 electrical contractor with Gescom\/KPTCL at the time of filing nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalaburagi bench of the high court has said that holding contractors\u2019 licence and discharging contracts with escom\/KPTCL would amount to office of profit and would disqualify such licence holders under section 12(g) of the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act 1993. The court said this while upholding the order of a civil court in Raichur which disqualified an electrical contractor as a member of Chandrabanda village panchayat. The petitioner Manikyappa was elected as a member on December 30, 2020 and one Dastagir had challenged the election. It was contended that Manikyappa was holding an office of profit as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}