New Delhi: Unhappy over the conduct of the Centre’s counsel whereas listening to a bureaucrat’s plea searching for paperwork associated to his empanelment, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has stated the case might be selected Friday ex-parte in case the respondents advocates fail to look earlier than it, in keeping with an official order.
The directive got here on Monday on a plea filed by Sanjiv Chaturvedi, a 2002 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, in December 2022.
Hearing the matter by means of video-conferencing, the CAT principal bench stated that “no one is current on behalf of the respondent-UOI (Union of India) though Shri Hanu Bhaskar, counsel for the respondents put his look by means of video conferencing, however he refused to argue the matter on deserves,” the tribunal stated in its order.
T C Aggarwal, discovered counsel representing the respondents (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) can also be not linked and “personal secretary to one in all us, repeatedly known as from his cell to Shri T C Aggarwal… however he has not responded the identical or linked by means of V.C. within the matter,” stated the order issued by the bench of Justice Rajiv Joshi (judicial member) and Anand S Khati (administrative member).
The conduct of the counsel for the respondents isn’t appreciated by the court docket, it stated, including that the court docket has no choice, however to adjourn the matter.
The CAT directed the case to be put up on March 22, 2024, and inform about this order to each the counsels for the respondents (Bhaskar and Aggarwal) in writing, in keeping with the order’s copy.
“It is made clear that on the following date mounted within the matter, if the counsels for the respondents failed to look, the matter shall be determined ex-parte on benefit,” stated the tribunal, which adjudicates issues associated to the federal government workers.
Hearing this matter, the bench had final month directed to place up this matter ‘for remaining listening to peremptorily’.
“Since, the pleadings between the events have already been exchanged, put up this matter on 18.03.2024 for remaining listening to peremptorily,” it had stated in an order dated February 20.
Chaturvedi had sought instructions to the Central authorities to provide all paperwork, value determinations, experiences of skilled committees, civil companies board (CSB) and findings of the competent authorities associated to the rejection of his utility for empanelment on the stage of joint secretary or equal within the Central authorities.
The officer was conveyed his non-empanelment for holding the publish of the joint secretary or equal by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) by means of an order dated November 15, 2022, by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
The tribunal had issued notices to the Central authorities on December 20, 2022.
(Published 19 March 2024, 10:48 IST)
