Amrik Singh v. Jagat Jot Goyal Chief Engineer Dept of Water Suppy and Sanitation
Case brief
What is this about?
Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh; COCP-700-2025 (O&M); contempt petition; decided 04.04.2025 by Justice Harkesh Manuja (oral order); petitioner Amrik Singh (counsel Tegbir Singh Dhillon); respondent Jagat Jot Goyal, Chief Engineer, Deptt. of Water Supply and Sanitation, Punjab, Patiala (counsel Siddharth Sandhu, AAG Punjab); subject: consideration of regularization claim in terms of Govt. instructions dated 23.01.2001 and 15.12.2006; respondent to pass speaking order within two weeks and convey it within a week thereafter; petition dismissed as not pressed with liberty to challenge the speaking order; Rule discharged; pending applications disposed; conditional attachment of one-third (1/3rd) of respondent's salary till compliance if undertaking breached.
What did the court decide?
Petition dismissed as not pressed with liberty to avail remedies against the speaking order, if at all passed against the petitioner; Rule discharged; pending application(s), if any, disposed of; safeguard that 1/3rd of the respondent's salary shall remain attached till compliance if the undertaking is breached.