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| HC declines to regularize services of 296 SKAUST employees | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Jammu wing today disposed of five petitions challenging the disengagement of 296 contractual employees of Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology Jammu.
The Petitioners had also challenged the tender notice dated September 11, 2009 issued by the Registrar of SKAUST for the engagement of different class of workers through a contractor.
The Petitioners who were originally appointed on daily wagers on May 1, 2003 and their services were later on converted into contractual employees by the respondents and the services of these petitioner also been terminated on September 17, 2009.
According to the respondents it has been alleged that these appointments were made by various functionaries of the University in the past, against whom FIR has now been registered by the State Vigilance Organization and the matter is being investigated. It has been prima-facie established that all these engagements have been made without following due process of selection and through backdoor and that too on pick and choose basis.
While disposing of all these five petitions challenging the disengagement of petitioners, Justice Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain of of J&K High Court Jammu Wing after hearing both the sides observed that admission of respondents about the illegality of the engagements in dispute before the Accountability Commission cannot help the petitioner for the reasons that reply has been submitted in the year 2008 by the same authority who made such appointments and it was only in the year 2009 that on an enquiry conducted it was found that gross-irregularities have been committed by the authorities while making these engagements.
In the case of the petitioners no proper procedures has been adopted while making their engagements and no rule has been shown by the petitioners under which their regularization in such circumstances could be considered. With these observations Court dismissed all the five petitions. ---JNF |
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