Srinagar, December 19: The High Court again expressed serious concern over non-implementation of judgment on settling the pensionary benefits of 460 Veterinary Doctors by observing that there was no need of further unnecessary litigation if the Government had settled the issue on basic judgment passed in 2017 and directed to accord sanction to their claim for release of benefits.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey after hearing before proceeding against the concerned officials granted last opportunity to Govt to forward the cases of these doctors to Accountant General to enable him to accord sanction for pension payment order on the basis of release of third time bound promotion to the petitioners.
Advocate submitted before the Court that all the concerned authorities were writing to the Principal Secretary to release of the benefits in favour of the members of the association, but still the same is not being released in their favour for known reasons.
Justice Magrey said the denial of pensionary benefits is a violation of Constitutional guarantees and the employees cannot ordinarily be deprived of it and the plight of petitioners can only be imagined as one really wonders as to how the petitioners would be making their both ends meet in these hard times.
Court while passing the judgment said that when the Government deals with public related matters even in distribution of bounty, the democratic form of Government exacts equivalence and absence of arbitrariness and discrimination.
The Court said that Government need not to venture into any such accord having discriminatory ramifications on other set of stratum. The court declared the denial of Third Time Bound Promotion by the Government to the Veterinary doctors as unsustainable in law and accordingly set-aside the same denial.
Shall JKUT govt dare to punish the officers, who are causing such like litigations & causing loss to Govt exchequer as litigation charges as a whole?
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