The Indian farmer received a passenger train for the debts of the railroad
Sampooran Singh pleaded with the management of Railways, which a few years ago, had bought land for the construction of a railway, but the money in the amount of $15.3 thousand and not paid.
NEW DELHI, March 19. /Offset. TASS Evgenie Pahomov/. A court in the Indian state of Punjab was awarded to a local farmer, a passenger train as a compensation for the debts of the railway administration.
As reported by the channel NDTV, the court gave the plaintiff a decree by which the passenger train with 20 cars passed him as compensation for the debt
Farmer Sampooran Singh pleaded with the management of the railroads of the state, which several years ago had bought land for the construction of a railway, but the money in the amount of 1 million rupees (about $15,3 thousand) for the land and not paid. In 2015, Singh won the case, but the money never saw the railway administration stated that it had no funds. The farmer’s lawyer again submitted the case to the court in January of this year, and the judge decided to confiscate in favor of the farmer railway property train.
In the evening on Friday, Singh with a lawyer bailiffs arrived at the station of Ludhiana, waited for the Express train and handed his driver the confiscation of the whole. While Singh was allowed to the driver to complete a trip along the route to deliver passengers.
The railroad obtained permission to use the composition of two more days before they find the funds for the payment of the debt.
If this does not happen, the train and its 20 cars can be auctioned.
Railway precedent
The court in Punjab, obviously, was guided by the precedent established by the courts of South Karnataka. There in October last year, the court issued a surprising decision to confiscate for the debts of the passenger train, EN route in Dharwad — Bangalore.
It turned out that in 1991, the Railways Department bought about 300 farmers land to build a branch from the station of Harihar town to Kotturu. The money was paid, not all — almost 100 people compensation for land and have not seen. Numerous complaints have yielded no results, however, a farmer named Sivakumar decided to go to the end — for many years he was bombarded with claims of the various courts.
Ultimately, the court decided to detain the train at the station Harihar — bailiffs, accompanied by police, showed the train crew a court order that a train is confiscated in connection with unpaid debt years. The document States that if the local Department of Railways do not pay the local farmer 3.8 million rupees (about $57 thousand), the train will be seized to repay the debt. Then the railway officials rapidly found funds.
These two precedents can lead to mass confiscation of rolling stock across India, since non-payment of funds for land acquired from farmers for construction of railway tracks, has become a mass problem, according to local media.