Bailable warrants against Engineer-in-Chief of MoD

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 22

The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) today issued bailable warrants against the Engineer-in-Chief (EIC) of Ministry of Defence (MoD), New Delhi, for not implementing it order of releasing consequential benefits of arrears of an executive engineer and re-fixing his salary on a par with his two juniors.

The administrative tribunal stated that if the order was not implemented till April 7, the next date of hearing, then Engineer-in-Chief Sanjeev Talwar should be arrested and presented before the administrative tribunal.

The Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Mohan Kumar, was also made the party in the case but the warrant was not issued against him.

According to the execution plea filed by applicant Khaili Ram, a native of Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, the Central Administrative Tribunal on February 10 last year ordered that his all consequential benefits be released with interest and re-fix his salary within three months of the order.

However, the department did not fulfil the order of the tribunal even after several months. The applicant was posted as the Executive Engineer at the office the Engineer-in-Chief in Ministry of Defence in Chandigarh.

In his plea, he sought his salary be raised on par with Dharam Singh and Chhitar Singh, posted in the same wing.

He contended he deserved to get the same salary they were drawing, the court had found his contention right and had directed the authorities concerned to give him same with allowance and interest from September 1, 2008.