This court closed a contempt petition maintaining that the Government order G.O.Ms.No.140 dated 25.04.2018 had complied with the prior order in W.P.No.12117 of 2016 regarding pension benefits.
Contempt petition closed; no order as to costs.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 27.04.2018
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.M.SUBRAMANIAM
Cont.P.No.1209 of 2018
G.Sargunan ... Petitioner
Vs
1. Thiru.V.Deivendran,
The Chief Engineer,
Agricultural Engineering,
Nandanam,
Chennai – 600 035.
2. Thiru.K.Shanmugam, IAS.,
Principal Secretary to Govt.,
Finance (CMPC) Department,
Secretariat,
Chennai – 600 009.
... Respondents
PRAYER: Contempt Petition filed under Section 11 of the
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, to punish the respondents
for having not only violated, but also disobeyed the order
of this Hon'ble Court made in W.P.No.12117 of 2016 dated
16.08.2017.
For Petitioner : Mr.R.Malaichamy For Respondent : Mr.M.Elumalai Government Advocate O R D E R
The learned Government Advocate appearing on behalf
of the respondents made a submission that the order passed by this court on 16.08.2017 in W.P.No.12117 of 2016 has been complied with. In this regard, the Government issued
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G.O.Ms.No.140, Finance (Pay Cell) Department, 25.04.2018.
The Government order states that the Government extend the
benefit of sanction of annual increment to all the
petitioners who have filed various writ petitions and all
other similarly placed persons who retired prior to 31.12.2014 and completed one full year of service prior to
their retirement, notionally with effect from the date of
their retirement for the purpose of revision of pension with monetary benefit prospectively (CMPC) Department, dated 31.12.2014. Since, the benefit granted in G.O.Ms.No.311, Finance (CMPC) Department, dated 31.12.2014 has been already extended to the writ petitioners as well as other similarly placed persons, no further adjudication is required in respect of the grounds raised in this writ petition. 2.Accordingly, this contempt petition stands closed. However, there is no order as to costs. SD/ ASSISTANT REGISTRAR(Commr.cases)
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COURT OFFICER(O.S.)
From 25th Day of September 2008 the Registry is issuing certified copies of the Orders/Judgments/Decrees in this format.
CO/21/05/2018.
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One CC to Government Pleader, SR.7124.
One CC to M/s. R. Malaicgamy, Advocate, SR.7034.
To
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G.Sargunan
Thiru.V.Deivendran
Thiru.K.Shanmugam
S.M.Subramaniam
As recorded by the court registry
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