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Part time lecturer gets justice after 18 years

HC regularises service

Hyderabad: P. Sreenivasulu Reddy, a part-time lecturer in Jawahar Bharathi Degree College of Kavali town in Nellore district, moved the High Court in the 1996, challenging the inaction of the higher education department authorities in regularising his services in accordance with GO 302 dated August 23, 1991.

He told the court that he had joined service in 1988 and the authorities had regularised the services of part-time lecturers in private colleges who were similarly placed, but denied him the benefit.

He alleged that when he approached the second time, the authorities replied that the GO was held in abeyance in 1995.

The High Court in 2004 granted an order directing authorities to regularise his services from the date when he joined service. The state government had preferred an appeal in 2005.

A division bench, dismissing the appeal in 2011, modified the order directing authorities to regularise his services from August 23, 1991, within six weeks from the date of receipt of the order.

As the authorities failed to implement the order, the petitioner moved a contempt case in 2012 and the authorities sought adjournments citing various reasons.

When the case came up for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar, it ordered the presence of the commissioner and director of the higher education and accordingly the officials appeared before the court and requested for more time to grant the order.

The bench made it clear that the authorities who were responsible for not implementing the order have to tender unconditional apology to the court and also regularise the services of the petitioner, otherwise the court will initiate contempt proceedings against them.

Pursuant to the order, M.G. Gopal, TTD executive officer and the then secretary to AP education department and Ms K. Suneetha, the commissioner of Collegiate education of AP on Saturday appeared before the bench and tendered a written apology and placed the GO issued for the regularisation of service of the petitioner. The bench then closed the case.

Plea over Dental body elections

Justice P. Naveen Rao of the Hyderabad High Court on Saturday admitted a petition challenging the election of vice-president of Dental Council of India, despite an interim stay granted by this court in July 6, 2014.

Dr Ali Hyder Sheik, a member of the council, moved the plea stating that the High Court stayed the election scheduled on June 13, 2014 for not following statutory procedure by keeping the members in the dark and holding elections on schedule.

Senior counsel Gangaiah Naidu, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that some vested interests used the court as a forum to stay the election and later withdrew the petition for extraneous reasons and conducted the election.

The judge issued notices to the Centre, the DCI, IDA and Dr Ala Srikanth, secretary of IDA seeking their stand on the plea.

Official to pay penalty for injustice

Justice A. Ramalin-geswara Rao of Hyder-abad High Court on Saturday imposed Rs 5,000 penalty on Ms P. Usha Rani, vice-chairman of the Vijayawada Guntur Tenali Mangalagiri Urban Development Area (VGTMUDA), for not allotting a proper plot to a poor person, despite the latter having paid all the instalments.

The judge was allowing a petition by Kasturamma of Tenali, stating that she had purchased a plot in the layout, developed by VGTMUDA in Tenali and the authorities had allotted Plot No. 156 to her, which was already allotted to another person.

Earlier, the judge had directed the vice-chairman to execute the appropriate deeds to allot plot No 154 to the petitioner and 152 to other affected persons. The vice-chairman had filed an affidavit, stating that they had written to the sub registrar to rectify the plot numbers.

The judge expressed dismay at the reply of the officer and said that the law does not permit the sub registrar to rectify the sale deeds except through rectification deeds to be executed by the concerned vendors.

The judge directed the official to execute rectification deeds to see that the petitioner got her plot and to pay costs.

( Source : dc correspondent )
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