HC summons record from CS, GAD in contempt petition filed by KAS officer

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: In a contempt petition filed by KAS officer Shahnaz Akthar, High Court has summoned the entire record from Chief Secretary Mohammad Iqbal Khanday, Commissioner/ Secretary GAD, Mohammad Ashraf Bukhari and Commissioner/ Secretary Industries and Commerce Department, Mohammad Farooq Factoo.
After hearing Advocate Irfaan Khan, Justice Tashi Rabstan directed respondents to produce entire record on the next date of hearing.
While advancing the arguments, Advocate Khan submitted that the respondent have violated the court directions passed in the petition filed by Shahnaz Akhtar and just to defeat the purport of the directions have passed the order dated 25-01-2014 by virtue of which the claims of the petitioner for her fixation of seniority in the list of Project Managers in Industries and Commerce Department have been rejected.
The respondents were under an obligation to implement the directions by accepting the claims of the petitioner by fixing her seniority in the list of Project Managers after deleting from the seniority list of Functional Managers and further her induction in KAS with effect from 22-07-2008 under ST Category with all the consequential benefits as the writ petition had been allowed by Court vide Judgment dated 04-02-2013, the counsel for the petitioner said.
“There was no room for the respondents to reject the claims of the petitioner as such the respondents are required to be proceeded in terms of Contempt of Court Act”, he submitted.
The High Court has fixed the matter in the week commencing 7th April 2014.

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