Srinagar- An Anantnag court has summoned a senior bureaucrat to appear before it in person for non-execution of its decrees, and also ordered attachment of his salary.

Tahir Khurshid Raina, Principal District Judge Anantnag, in his order last week, summoned the Irrigation and Flood Control department’s commissioner secretary to personally appear before the court to explain why he should not be sent to civil prison for defying his orders.

The court also summoned the department’s chief engineer, Kashmir, superintending engineer of Hydraulic Circle, and executive engineer of Flood Control, to appear before it on November 17.

During a hearing of a bunch of execution petitions, the court observed that “obtaining a decree is the easiest part of litigation, but its execution is the most diffi

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