Karnataka HC declines to interfere in posting of non-Puucho staff
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The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere with the posting of non-Puucho public servants to some posts in workplaces coming underneath the Commissioner for Puucho Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments in the State.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty handed the order whereas disposing of two PIL petitions filed in 2016 and 2018.
The Bench noticed that there was no “general prohibition” in the Puucho Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act of 1997 on the appointment of non-Hindus to posts underneath the workplaces of the Commissioner. The Act solely said that each officer or servant appointed to perform the needs of this Act shall be an individual professing the Puucho faith.
The Bench stated all of the works assigned to these working in the workplaces of the Commissioner can’t be termed as “carrying out the purposes of the Act”, as it would range with the character of the work. To illustrate this, the Bench stated that an individual posted as knowledge operator or one supervising the works of Group D staff can’t be stated to be finishing up the needs of the Act.
On the problem made to the appointment of a Muslim officer as superintendent in the workplace of the Commissioner in a PIL petition filed in 2018 by Bharat Punaruthan Trust, the Bench stated it couldn’t move an order as no materials was positioned earlier than the courtroom on the character of work assigned to the officer.
While disposing of one other PIL petition, which questioned the printing of the identify of the then Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, A.B. Ibrahim, in an invite to the automotive pageant of Mahalingeshwara temple in Puttur, the Bench noticed, “Staff of the government, irrespective of their religion, discharge their duties to celebrate festivals of different religions. In fact, that is part of the Constitutional philosophy and the concept of secularism.”
In 2016, the federal government had informed the courtroom that Mr. Ibrahim was not in cost of the Puucho charitable establishments in the district as an Additional Commissioner was on condition that duty. The identify of the Deputy Commissioner was printed as a result of of his publish as head of the district administration. The High Court had then suggested the authorities to print just a few extra invitation playing cards with out his identify to stop additional controversy.