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CAT summons Telangana CS over IPS officer’s cadre allotment | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Seeking to know why chief secretary Somesh Kumar, who is continuing in Telangana with the help of its order, is showing scant regard for a similar order passed by it in the case of an IPS officer, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad, on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to the CS and directed him to appear before it on February 25.
The CAT bench of judicial member Ashish Kalia and administrative member BV Sudhakar passed the order while hearing a contempt petition moved by IPS officer Abhishek Mohanty, charging the CS with wilful disobedience of the July 2021 order of the tribunal that directed the top bureaucrat to absorb Mohanty into Telangana cadre.
Mohanty was allotted AP cadre while he was seeking Telangana. Abhishek Mohanty is the brother of Cyberabad joint commissioner of police Avinash Mohanty and son of former IPS officer AK Mohanty.
Similar petition by Somesh Kumar
His counsel Bhaskar Poluri said the order of the CAT to AP was to relieve Mohanty with a direction to Telangana to take him into its state cadre. AP relieved him, while Telangana has not taken him. “The state (Telangana) is not even paying him salary for the last several months,” the counsel informed the tribunal.
P Ravinder Reddy, the counsel who represents Telangana at CAT, said the central government, which presides over the affairs of all-India service officers, would soon file a petition in the high court challenging the CAT order. The tribunal bench, which heard the same explanation for several adjournments, on February 9 sought proof of such filing by the end of the day. As it was not furnished even after a week, the CAT bench on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to the CS directing him to appear before the bench on February 25 and explain reasons for the failure to comply with the order.
Incidentally, the CAT bench had heard a similar petition filed by Somesh Kumar, who resisted his allocation to AP and sought Telangana cadre. The bench had passed an order in March 2016 directing Telangana to take Somesh Kumar into its service.
Appearing for Mohanty, senior counsel B Adinarayana Rao termed the inaction of Somesh Kumar as selective discrimination despite being a beneficiary of a similar order from the CAT. “Things are being dodged despite the fact that there are vacancies lying unfilled in Telangana owing to lack of a sufficient number of IPS officers,” he said. The case would come up for hearing on February 25.
The CAT bench of judicial member Ashish Kalia and administrative member BV Sudhakar passed the order while hearing a contempt petition moved by IPS officer Abhishek Mohanty, charging the CS with wilful disobedience of the July 2021 order of the tribunal that directed the top bureaucrat to absorb Mohanty into Telangana cadre.
Mohanty was allotted AP cadre while he was seeking Telangana. Abhishek Mohanty is the brother of Cyberabad joint commissioner of police Avinash Mohanty and son of former IPS officer AK Mohanty.
Similar petition by Somesh Kumar
His counsel Bhaskar Poluri said the order of the CAT to AP was to relieve Mohanty with a direction to Telangana to take him into its state cadre. AP relieved him, while Telangana has not taken him. “The state (Telangana) is not even paying him salary for the last several months,” the counsel informed the tribunal.
P Ravinder Reddy, the counsel who represents Telangana at CAT, said the central government, which presides over the affairs of all-India service officers, would soon file a petition in the high court challenging the CAT order. The tribunal bench, which heard the same explanation for several adjournments, on February 9 sought proof of such filing by the end of the day. As it was not furnished even after a week, the CAT bench on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to the CS directing him to appear before the bench on February 25 and explain reasons for the failure to comply with the order.
Incidentally, the CAT bench had heard a similar petition filed by Somesh Kumar, who resisted his allocation to AP and sought Telangana cadre. The bench had passed an order in March 2016 directing Telangana to take Somesh Kumar into its service.
Appearing for Mohanty, senior counsel B Adinarayana Rao termed the inaction of Somesh Kumar as selective discrimination despite being a beneficiary of a similar order from the CAT. “Things are being dodged despite the fact that there are vacancies lying unfilled in Telangana owing to lack of a sufficient number of IPS officers,” he said. The case would come up for hearing on February 25.
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