The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday
asked the Union ministry of communications to take a decision on
representations demanding issuance of commemorative postal stamp to mark the
centenary celebrations of martyrdom of 11 Ghadar movement martyrs, including
Kartar Singh Sarabha.
A division bench headed by Justice S K Mittal
passed these directions while hearing a petition filed by advocate H C Arora
who had submitted a representation to the communications ministry for the
issuance of postal stamp in public interest.
In his representation submitted on December
25, 2014, Arora had requested the Centre that a commemorative postage stamp be
issued during 2015 in the honour of 11 martyrs of Ghadar, including the tallest
amongst them - Kartar Singh Sarabha - who sacrificed their lives for securing
Independence of the country.
However, Arora received a letter from
assistant director general (philately), department of posts (philately section)
asking him to send a proposal for which he has to undertake to purchase at
least one lakh commemorative postage stamps and send a proposal two years in
advance for his request.
Arora sent another representation on February
18 to the communications ministry, requesting that the proposal submitted by
him be considered in public interest as martyrs belong to the entire nation and
to relax all pre-conditions of purchasing one lakh postal commemorative stamps
or submitting proposal two years in advance. After receiving no response from
the ministry, Arora had moved the HC.
Source:-The Times of India
