HC imposes costs on T.N. govt. for filing frivolous appeals

HC imposes costs on T.N. govt. for filing frivolous appeals

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27.08.2024 

However, the approval was recalled the next day, which was challenged in court in 2020.

While the petitions were pending, the Director of Collegiate Education, Chennai, cancelled the orders passed by the Joint Director of Collegiate Education, and the orders of approval were reaffirmed. Recording it, the petitions were disposed of by the court with directions in 2021. However, the writ petitioners were granted a monthly salary only from July 2022.

These petitioners approached the court seeking the disbursement of salary from 2009 to July 2022. The government had told the Single Bench of the court that the funds they were receiving were sufficient only to satisfy the salary of professors. Therefore, they were unable to pay the arrears, and were awaiting a special grant. As and when it was received, the arrears would be disbursed. The Single Bench directed the payment of salary for the period during which the writ petitioners had worked in the approved posts of assistant professors. The court observed that an attempt was made to cancel the approval and put up a stage-managed show to deny salary.

At the intervention of the court, the cancellation of approvals was recalled. Even after that, the Department did not pay the salary of the writ petitioners. The court directed that in each appeal, ₹25,000 should be paid to the writ petitioner, and the remaining ₹25,000 to the Cancare Foundation, Chennai.