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CHANDIGARH, Jan 19: A Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal comprising administrative member N K Verma and judicial member Jasbir S Dhaliwal rejected the claim of Shelly Sharma, Suresh Kumar and Hatinder Kumar for regularisation of their services as clerks in the Licensing and Registration Branch of the Chandigarh Administration.
The applicants contended that they being 102, were eligible to be appointed as clerks and their services were required to be regularised as such against the available vacancies because they had rendered more than three years of service and were still in employment.
Respondents averred that the applicants had wilfully tried to mislead the tribunal and built up a story as to how the daily wage workers could continue without wages after March, 1997, and they neither made any representation nor agitated for reimbursement of their wages. It was further submitted that in order to check malpractices going on in the Licensing and Registration Branch, the Administration had decided to install computers and to engage clerks through employment exchange having knowledge of computer operations with B.A. or B.Com. qualifications.
It was held that the applicants had tried to deliberately make false averments regarding their employment between March 1, 1997 to August, 1997, and even thereafter. Rejecting the claim of the applicants, their case was dismissed with the cost of Rs 3,000 to be paid by the applicants in equal shares within a period of two months in the Registry of the Tribunal.
Transfer upheld
A Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal comprising administrative member N K Verma and judicial memberJasbir S Dhaliwal upheld the transfer of Ved Parkash, assistant provident fund commissioner from Chandigarh to Jodhpur.The applicant contended that his transfer to Jodhpur was in colourable exercise of power at the behest of R S Kaushik, central provident fund commissioner, despite the fact that the applicant had performed excellent work by making recoveries of about 12 crore. His wife is serving at Chandigarh and his child was below 10 years and three posts of APCs were lying vacant at Chandigarh.
