Uttarakhand: The High Court asked for year-wise report, asked – during whose tenure in the Vidhansabha-Secretariat, how many appointments were made?

The Uttarakhand High Court has sought a year-wise report from the petitioner and the Vidhansabha Secretariat regarding the number of appointments made during their tenure from 2000 to 2021 in the case of illegal appointments in the Vidhansabha Secretariat. The court said that within three weeks, present this report to the court through an affidavit. The next hearing of the case will be on August 4. The case was heard before a division bench of Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Alok Kumar Verma. Dehradun resident social worker Abhinav Thapar had filed a PIL against backdoor recruitment, corruption and irregularities in the Uttarakhand Assembly Secretariat. It said that by forming an inquiry committee, the recruitment in the Assembly Secretariat after 2016 was cancelled, while the appointments before that were not cancelled.

It was said in the petition that this scam in the Assembly Secretariat has been going on since the formation of the state in 2000. In the petition, the court has been requested to conduct an inquiry under the supervision of the sitting judge of the High Court against those who employ corruption in the assembly secretariat recruitment and action should be taken against them by recovering government money from them.

The petitioner’s advocate told the court that the government had issued a mandate on February 6, 2003, banning ad hoc appointments, which was in violation of Articles 14, 16 and 187 of the Constitution. Under these, every citizen has equal rights in government jobs. This is also in violation of the 1974 Service Rules of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the 2011 Rules of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.