Wednesday, 18 August 2021 | PNS | Nainital
A former employee of the Jal Sansthan has received justice after 41 years from the Uttarakhand high court. The high court has ordered that all the dues, pension and other retirement benefits of Kan Singh Rana whose service was terminated by the Jal Sansthan in 1980, should be paid by the department. The high court single bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwar also found the Jal Sansthan petition to be lacking substance and rejected it.
According to the case details, Dehradun resident Rana had filed petition in the labour court in Dehradun in 1980 stating that his service had been terminated by the Jal Sansthan without issuance of any notice or providing him a reason for the same. The labour court ruled in his favour but the department challenged this in the high court stating that it had not been heard in the labour court and that the decision was one-sided. The HC had earlier directed the department to submit its objection in the labour court where it was rejected. The department had stated that the worker had not worked in his office for 240 days due to which he had been fired. The department challenged the decision in the HC again, hearing on which the court cited Uttar Pradesh Industrial Disputes Act and Supreme Court decisions and directed the department to clear Rana’s dues. Rana is currently aged about 78 years.
