In a relief to several postal assistants
(PA) and sorting assistants (SA) from Gujarat, the Ahmedabad bench of central
administrative tribunal (CAT) has set aside the order cancelling their services
on Tuesday.
The CAT has also asked the postal
department to conduct inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the
recruitment of PAs and SAs from the state and take decision within three
months.
Hundreds of PAs and SAs from the state,
whose recruitment was cancelled by the postal department in December last year,
had approached the CAT. "The postal department had cancelled the
recruitments across the country after one of the candidates who wasn't selected
alleged that irregularities occurred in the recruitment process in Uttar
Pradesh. Following the allegations, inquiry was conducted and hundreds of
recruitments were cancelled by the postal department," said senior
advocate Bhaskar Tanna who represented the PAs and SAs.
"We filed case in the CAT on behalf of
167 affected PAs and SAs from Gujarat. We argued in the tribunal that the
postal department terminated all recruitments without segregating guilty and
non-guilty candidates. Also, the candidates were not given any opportunity of
being heard.
The bench of M Nagarajan and E K Bharat
Bhushan held that the decision to cancel the recruitments was unconstitutional
and violated the provisions of the constitution," Tanna told TOI. The
bench has asked the postal department to conduct inquiry within three months
and take those on job who are found to be not guilty. "This order is
limited to Gujarat. The tribunal has also asked postal department to ensure
that the guilty be booked," Tanna added.
Source: Times of India
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