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CAT Bar Assn plans to hold chakka jam
THE MEMBERS of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Bar Association here will resort to chakka jam in front of the High Court on Wednesday (March 22). This was unanimously decided at a meeting of CAT Bar Association, Allahabad, held under the presidentship of RP Singh, advocate, on Tuesday, said a press release issued by Ashish Srivastava, general secretary, Central Administrative Tribunal Bar Association.
THE MEMBERS of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Bar Association here will resort to chakka jam in front of the High Court on Wednesday (March 22).
This was unanimously decided at a meeting of CAT Bar Association, Allahabad, held under the presidentship of RP Singh, advocate, on Tuesday, said a press release issued by Ashish Srivastava, general secretary, Central Administrative Tribunal Bar Association.
The meeting condemned the action of the Central Government to introduce a bill to amend the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 so as to bring in an enabling provision to abolish the Administrative Tribunals as well as to divest the administrative tribunals of powers to punish for contempt of court.
The meeting opined that the Union Government had introduced the said anti-employee provisions in the Bill in clear defiance of sound reasoning and public opinion.
In the meeting, the speakers also condemned this action of the Union Government. The meeting was conducted by general secretary Ashish Srivastava. Others present in the meeting were Rakesh Verma, Rajeev Trivedi, KP Singh, Manoj Upadhyay, Bechu Ram, Manoj Sharma, Ankit Gaur, RK Srivastava, Dharmendra Tiwari, Saumitra Singh, Avanish Tripathi and Amrendra Srivastava, all advocates.
Earlier yesterday, a meeting of lawyers belonging to CAT had decided to send a delegation under the leadership of president of CAT Bar Association RP Singh to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in this connection. They are to apprise her as to how some bureaucrats are allegedly making efforts to get a forum established by late Rajiv Gandhi abolished.
CAT Bar Association secretary Ashish Srivastava had alleged that some bureaucrats wanted to deprive the Central Administrative Tribunal of its contempt power and also to abolish it ultimately.
It may be recalled that if aggrieved over any decision of the Central Government or its higher authorities, the Central Government employees can file their cases in CAT at the first instance. If the employees or their departments are not satisfied with CAT’s order, they may challenge it before the High Court by filing a writ petition. Thereafter, the last forum before them is the Supreme Court.
