hyderabad coming down heavily on the judge of debt recovery tribunali drt in hyderabad for his alleged ignorance of the provisions of securitisation act and also an excessive prolender approach a division bench of telangana high court has asked the secretary of union finance ministry to consider taking appropriate action against himjudges of drts also known as presiding officers are expected to be well versed with the securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of securities interest sarfaesi act because most lender banks invoke provisions of this act to auction the residential or commercial assets of defaulters the bench of justice m s ramachandra rao and justice k lakshman said this in its recent judgement in a case filed by a proprietor of a poultry farm at chintakunta in warangal who was aggrieved with the action of his banker oriental bank of commerce in auctioning his agricultural land without taking his difficulties into consideration the proprietor had mortgaged two acres of his land and obtained rs 15 lakh working capital loan and rs 5 lakh towards cash credit facility he had set up his enterprise ssr poultry in half an acre and was continuing agricultural operations in the rest of the land the poultry owner contended that a crisis struck the poultry industry in 2014 when birdflu hit coupled with the steep rise in price of feed for the birds due to this he said he had defaulted on repaying some of the instalments the bank did not show any concern for him despite him explaining them the situation he said the bench in its order said that the drt judge had ignored certain basic tenets of the law and went totally in favour of the bank the law says that agricultural land should not be auctioned it was ignored by the bank which went ahead with the auction of the whole two acres of land though an advocate commissioner appointed by the court studied the ground reality and furnished a report saying that poultry was set up only in half acrethe drt ignored it the bench saidmoreover the person who bought the two acre plot in auction for rs 59 lakh also failed to pay the amount within the stipulated 15 days he paid the amount only after a shocking gap of three years yet the bank chose to issue a sale certificate in favour of this purchaser which is another infraction of law the bench said and added that it has been coming across several orders passed by this particular judge who is not keeping in mind the parameters of jurisdiction under the actthis drt judge has been repeatedly turning blind eye to the infractions committed by banks and financial institutions the bench said setting aside the actions taken against the poultry farm owner by the bank and drt the bench said he the drt judge seems to have an inherent bias in favour of banks and prejudice against the borrowers he is seeking to sustain every