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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to Chief Secretary KP Sinha for misrepresenting facts about the filing of Punjab government's appeal before the Supreme Court against the High Court's recent order for payment of pending dearness allowance (DA) to government employees.
On August 3, the High Court had directed the State to release all up-to-date pending installments of dearness allowance/dearness relief (DA/DR) to all its employees and pensioners, respectively, at the same rates as paid to the All India Services (IAS/IPS/IFS) officers serving within Punjab.
The judgment, which also bars the government from resorting to any unproductive expenditures such as large-scale advertising campaigns in print or social media till non-payment of the dues, has been challenged by the State before the Supreme Court. However, the appeal has been before the top court Registry since September 1, owing to defects.
On Tuesday, the High Court had sought a report from the Supreme Court Registry about the status of the SLP moved by the State.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rohit Kapoor today noted that the report clearly depicts that the defects pointed out by the Supreme Court Registry have not been removed.
It noted that this was in contrast to the statement made by the Chief Secretary on Monday that the government had re-filed the SLP after removing the defects. It thus sought an explanation from...
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