After three long years today justice has finally prevailed. A bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice S.A. Bobde this morning summarily dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the Goa Government in connection with the PWD Junior Engineers recruitment case. On the politically soiled legal advice of Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni the Goa Government through the SLP had challenged the order of the Bombay High Court at Goa which had directed the Government to appoint the PWD Junior Engineers who were selected in 2011 by the earlier government. After Manohar Parrikar came to power in March 2012 those Junior Engineers who were selected and issued appointment letters by the earlier government were very high handedly not allowed to join service. Aggrieved by the overbearing stand of the government the Junior engineers immediately moved the High Court through a writ petition. A division Bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising of Justice R.S Dalvi and Justice F.M.Reis on 25th March last year held that the appointments dated 16th December 2011 of those Junior Engineers was correctly made and had to be given effect to. With the failure of the government to comply with the directions of the High Court the Junior Engineers in October last year moved a contempt petition before the High Court. The High Court has already issued contempt of Court notices to the then Acting Chief Secretary of Goa R.K Srivastava and D.J.S Borkar the PWD Principal Chief Engineer for not complying with the order issued by the High Court. The contempt petition is scheduled to come up for hearing on January 16th. Though now justice has finally prevailed for those Junior Engineers, the contempt petition will however be still vigorously pursued so that officers responsible are severely punished for intentionally under political pressure flouting the High Court order for over nine long months by malafiedly and mischievously not allowing the Junior Engineers to join service. Governance has to be a continuous process. The engineers could not have been made to suffer just because of a change in Government. But for the judiciary Manohar Parrikar’s reckless rule of the jungle would have prevailed.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:40:03 +0000
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