Uttarakhand Chief Justice G Narendra has constituted a new bench headed by him to hear senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi's contempt petition against the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
This marks a significant development as the move comes after 16 judges recused themselves from cases involving Chaturvedi.
A division bench comprising the chief justice and Justice Subhash Upadhyay will hear the contempt petition against CAT and members of its registry on October 30.
Sanjiv Chaturvedi is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer who has spent more than two decades in the civil service. A known crusader against corruption, Chaturvedi has consistently taken on powerful political and bureaucratic forces.
A 2002 batch officer and initially posted in Haryana, Chaturvedi gained prominence for exposing illegal tree-felling, poaching, and financial irregularities in plantation schemes. Despite the tremendous political pressure, he received support from high places – including six interventions by Presidents Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee that protected his service.
Chaturvedi gained recognition as a whistleblower by exposing alleged corruption during his tenure as chief vigilance officer (CVO) at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He has faced repeated judicial rejections in his...
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