Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 18: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Jammu Bench has stopped the salary of Chief Education Officer (CEO) Udhampur and Principal of Government Girls Higher Secondary School Udhampur.
The order in this regard has been passed by the Division Bench comprising Rajinder Dogra, Judicial Member and Ram Mohan Johri, Administrative Member with further direction to the Director School Education Jammu to hold enquiry against these officers for not complying the orders of the court despite being granted several opportunities.
In these two petitions, the court had ordered the officials to release the salary of the petitioners. In one Subash Singh case, the petitioner had performed duty in Election Department approximately eleven years back from 2009 to 2013 but salary for this period has not been released till date. The petitioner being aggrieved had made several representations but nothing was done and consequently he was compelled to file this petition.
The court had passed orders to release the due and admissible salary to the applicant for the period he had worked but CEO Udhampur failed to release the salary on one pretext or the other.
In yet another case, titled Anjana Kumari Versus UT of J&K there was clear directions of the court to release the salary of the applicant with effect from 1st September, 2023 till date there is no compliance as such contempt petition was filed by the petitioner.
Taking serious note of this, the CAT has stopped the salary of CEO Udhampur and Principal of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Udhampur.
Meanwhile, CAT Jammu Bench quashed the order of the Government for effecting recovery from the Class 3 and Class 4 Government employees to whom department have given one increment illegally in the year 1993-94.
Deciding bunch of petitions against Public Health Engineering Department, the CAT said, “department cannot recover the excess amount paid to the Class 3 and Class 4 employees after a gap of 30 years. The authorities have failed to prove that there was any misrepresentation or fraud committed by the applicants as such recovery from the employees is illegal and is in complete violation of Rule 242 of Civil Services Regulations as well as various judgments rendered by the Apex Court”.
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