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PANJIM: The Panjim market beef vendors have filed a contempt petition in the High Court of Bombay at Goa against the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) for violating court directives issued on October 18. The meat vendors claimed that they were not rehabilitated despite the High Court directing the CCP to find space for them to carry out their business after the market building was sealed stating that it was unsafe.
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The High Court had directed the CCP to frame a scheme within six weeks for interim rehabilitation of meat/chicken vendors as an obligation is cast on it till the new building is constructed. It had also asked the CCP to submit the details of the new building to be constructed with timeline for its completion within eight weeks.
The Court had disposed of two writ petitions filed by Mushtak Hussain Khatib and eight others. The petitioners had prayed that the CCP Commissioner be directed to immediately de-seal their premises/shops so that they can carry out trade/occupation in the said premises and earn their livelihood pending the rehabilitation of the Petitioners in the alternative premises.
They had also prayed that the CCP Commissioner be directed to draw a rehabilitation programme to rehabilitate the long-time lessees (30 years and more) fish, mutton, and beef vendors in any location in the Panjim municipal market pending the demolition of the fish market building and reconstruction of the same. It was further prayed that the Commissioner be directed immediately to provide alternative premises to the petitioners to carry out the occupation/trade within fish market building.
