NEW DELHI: Bikaner House , the quietly dignified structure at India Gate, was rescued from being a mere bus terminal for Rajasthan-bound buses some years ago. Its regal DNA was restored and it has since become a popular cultural hub, a melding of the old India of maharajas and a modern, culturally alive democratic country. Now a Delhi court , exasperated by the non-payment of an arbitral award of Rs 50.
3 lakh to an engineering firm by the municipality of Nokha, deemed owner of Bikaner House, has ordered the attachment of the former abode of the Rajasthan royals . State additional advocate general Shiv Mangal Sharma, who will represent Rajasthan in court, told TOI on Thursday that the state govt would seek an urgent stay on the order and challenge it in court. There was laxity on the part of the previous officer-in-charge and lawyer conducting the matter," Sharma said.
The next hearing in the original case is scheduled for Nov 29. The court of district judge Vidya Prakash told the Nokha Nagar Palika, deemed the owner of Bikaner House, that because of its failure to pay Enviro Infra Engineers Pvt Ltd Rs 50.3 lakh as arbitral award decided in Jan 2020, it was "prohibited and restrained, until the further order of this court, from transferring or charging the property (Bikaner House) specified in the schedule hereunto annexed, by sale, gift or otherwise, and that all persons be, and that they are hereby, prohibited from receiving the same by purchase, gift or otherwise".
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