HC issues warrants against commissioner, CE

Jammu: The High Court in a contempt petition Saturday issued warrants against commissioner secretary, Public Health Engineering, Atul Dullo and the chief engineer Jammu, Vinod Goswani for neither filing a compliance report nor presenting themselves before the court despite repeated notices. The Court ordered that their presence be secured through bail warrants and their salaries should remain attached. The orders have been passed in a contempt petition filed by Ashraf Hussain and others versus Atul Dullo and others. The petitioner through his counsel, Atul Bashin submitted the petition in 2004. The Court allowed the petition on March 18, 2005 with directions to the respondent state to pass appropriate order for regularization of the petitioners as Class-IV employees under SRO 64 of 1994 within a period of 6 months. The respondents didn’t challenge the order. But at the same time respondents didn’t comply the Court direction, which forced the petitioners to file contempt petition for initiating proceedings. The notice was issued to respondents, the respondents were granted number of opportunities but they have not complied with the directions, they are adopting delaying tactics. This shows that the respondents are intentionally deliberately violating the direction of the court. On February 10, 2006 last opportunity of six weeks was granted to the respondents to file compliance report. It was further directed that in case compliance report is not filed, the respondents should appear in person. (JNF) Greaterkashmir.com