Wednesday, 20 NOVEMBER 2024 | PNS | NAINITAL
Hearing on contempt petition regarding the earlier order of the Uttarakhand High Court regarding regularisation of workers of the Uttarakhand Purva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Limited (UPNL) not being acted upon, the single bench oif justice Alok Kumar Verma ordered the issuance of a contempt notice to chief secretary Radha Raturi. She has been directed to submit a reply in the court. The matter will be taken up next on December 24.
According to the case details, the UPNL workers union had filed a contempt petition in the High Court stating that in the Kundar Singh versus the State and others (2018) public interest litigation, the State government had been ordered to draft the manual for regularising the UPNL workers. The State government approached the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court but the apex court upheld the order of the High Court.Despite this, the order of the High Court has not been implemented yet by the State government though the special leave petition of the State has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
