Orissa HC orders witholding salaries of Finance, Law Secretaries over non-payment of pension
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The Orissa High Court has ordered that the wage of Odisha Finance and Law Secretaries be withheld if the pension of an individual, who retired from service 22 years in the past, will not be regularised by subsequent week.
A division bench comprising Justice S. Panda and Justice S.K. Panigrahi took the stringent view after noting that the pension had not been regularised regardless of the HC order to take action a yr in the past.
Mithuram Bhoi (80), who was a work-charged worker within the Hirakud Dam Project, had retired on June 30, 1998. As he was not paid the pension profit, he had moved the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) to get his dues. The SAT had ordered cost of fundamental minimal pension after regularising his service in 2015.
The Department of Irrigation had moved the High Court in opposition to the SAT’s order. The Orissa HC had, nonetheless, upheld the SAT order in December 2019.
A division bench comprising then Chief Justice K.S. Jhaveri and Justice K.R. Mohapatra had directed the federal government to regularise the companies of Mr. Bhoi in opposition to any sanctioned publish and grant minimal scale of pay, pension and different retirement advantages bearing in mind the interval throughout which he discharged his service as a work-charged worker.
The HC had then directed cost of precise pension from February 1, 2020 and arrears. It even made it clear that if the quantity was not paid, the worker must be paid 9% curiosity from the date of his entitlement.
As the federal government failed to hold out the HC order, Mr. Bhoi filed a contempt of courtroom case.
The HC bench comprising Justice Panda and Justice Panigrahi stated: “Since the court has passed an order on December 12, 2019 and in the meantime, one year has elapsed and for non-compliance of the order, contempt application has been filed, copy of the same has been served on the State government and direction has also been given for instruction in the matter, but till date the opposite parties have not considered the matter and sought for further time for compliance.
“We direct that if the 2019 order is not complied with by the next date, the salary for December, 2020 of the Law Secretary and the Finance Secretary of the Odisha government will be held up,” stated the bench. The subsequent date of listening to is scheduled on December 21.
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