Uttarakhand: Hearing in the assembly back door recruitment case in HC, the court asked- what action was taken on the previous order, orders to submit the reply
The Uttarakhand High Court heard a PIL filed against illegal appointments in the Assembly Secretariat. After hearing the case, the division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Bahri and Justice Alok Kumar Verma has asked the state government and the Assembly Secretariat to submit a reply within three weeks on what action was taken on the previous order. The next hearing of the case has been fixed for July 16.
Earlier, the court had directed the state government and the Assembly Secretariat to take action against the people involved in this and submit the report to the court through an affidavit. But no report has been submitted by them yet. On which the state government and the secretariat again sought three weeks’ time from the court to submit the report. The court has given an additional three weeks’ time to both of them to submit the report and has fixed July 16 for the next hearing. Earlier, the court had directed the secretariat to submit a reply while directing to take action against the people involved in the case under the government order of February 6, 2003. Which has not been submitted yet.
According to the case, Dehradun resident Abhinav Thapar has filed a PIL in this matter. In the PIL, he has challenged the backdoor recruitment, corruption and irregularities in the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat. In the PIL, he has said that the Vidhan Sabha has formed an inquiry committee and cancelled the recruitments made in the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat after the year 2016, while the appointments made before that have not been made. This scam in the secretariat has been happening since the formation of the state in the year 2000. Which the government has ignored.
In the PIL, the court has been requested to conduct an inquiry under the supervision of a sitting judge of the High Court against the powerful people who got jobs through corruption in the Vidhan Sabha recruitment. Action should be taken against them by recovering government money from them. The government order of 6 February 2003, which prohibits ad-hoc appointment, is a violation of Article 14, 16 and 187 of the Constitution. In which every citizen has a provision for equal rights and recruitment as per rules in government jobs and the 1974 service rules of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the 2011 rules of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly have been violated.
