Additional chief secretary Om Prakash appeared before the High Court single bench of justice Sharad Kumar Sharma. While informing the court that as per its earlier orders lecturers on contract had been regularised, he also apologised for the delay in the same.
As per the case details, Dehradun resident Rajendra Singh and five others had filed a contempt petition in the high court. They stated that in June 2018, the HC division bench had ordered that they be regularised on lecturer posts in the government polytechnic. However, the technical education secretary neither regularised them nor provided minimum pay grade to them. When the state filed a special leave petition against the HC order in the Supreme Court it was directed to file a review petition in the HC.
However, as no order was passed in the review petition, Singh and others filed a contempt petition. The single bench had earlier issued a contempt notice to the senior bureaucrat.
HC seeks replies in petition regarding sting operation
In a petition seeking quashing of FIR lodged against television news channel chief executive officer Umesh Sharma in an alleged sting operation, the high court of Uttarakhand has sought replies from the State government and other respondents. Hearing the petition, the division bench of justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and justice Ravindra Maithani sought replies within three weeks from the state government, the complainant Ayush Gaur, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s brother, his acquaintance Sanjay Gupta, Dehradun senior superintendent of police and investigating officer in the case.