District Court Zunheboto has ordered attachment of land and office building of the executive engineer, PWD (R&B) Zunheboto for non-payment of contract work executed bill amounting Rs. 3,97,98,000 to a firm.
In a press release, Hukavi Zhimomi, advocate for the firm, said the state government awarded contract work for construction of 30.00M Span RCC bridge over Lanki river on Satakha-Saptiqa Road (Zunheboto) at approximate work value of Rs. 522.95 Lac to Alen Meren Enterprises vide letter No.CE/TENDER/Brg.1/2010-11/132 dated Kohima September 7, 2012. During the ongoing work, the advocate said a partial amount of Rs. 125 lakh was released to the contractor.
The contractor completed the said contract as per the specification in the year 2016 and the office of the EE PWD (R&B) issued a completion certificate. However, despite the completion of work, the department failed to release the pending bill.
After running from pillar to post to claim the bill, the contractor approached the district court, Zunheboto for redressed of his grievances. In a relief to the contractor, the court ordered the case in his favour directing the state government and its machineries to pay outstanding bill of Rs. 3,97,98,000 with interest @7% plus cost of the suit to the contractor vide its Judgment & Order dated February 14, 2018.
However, the advocate said state government and its machineries failed to pay the outstanding bill.
Subsequently, the advocate said execution proceeding was initiated before the District Court, Zunheboto and the court finally attached the land and office building of the EE, PWD (R&B) Zunheboto vide order dated September 25, 2018 for proclamation of sale of the same in order to pay the contractor out of the sale proceeds.
Further, the District Court Zunheboto issued a precept to the Dimapur District Court for attachment and sale of the land and office building of the EE PWD (R&B) Dimapur since the sale of the property of EE PWD (R&B) Zunheboto would not satisfy the entire decretal amount ie. Rs. 3,97,98,000 with interest © 7% and cost of the suit.