The Karnataka Excessive Court docket has issued an interim keep on a November 2024 order by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions that barred Justice P N Desai, who had retired from the court docket, from taking on authorities appointments for 3 years.
Justice Desai was appointed by the state authorities because the one-man fee of inquiry to research the alleged MUDA land rip-off in July final yr.
Senior advocate Udaya Holla, representing Justice Desai, argued that the retired choose had made a communication on August 14, 2024, to the impact that he thanked the federal government for his appointment as a member of the Central Administrative Tribunal however he couldn’t take up the position as he had already accepted the project of the Karnataka authorities.
Holla argued that the consent of the chosen candidates was required earlier than proposals had been despatched to the secretariat of the appointment committee. If appointed candidates didn’t be part of their posting for thirty days, the process is to ship a 15-day discover informing of doable debarment, it was additional argued.
On Tuesday, a bench of Justice R Devdas issued an interim keep on the Union ministry’s order till the following date of listening to within the matter, February 6.
The court docket’s interim order mentioned, “Discovered Senior Counsel submits that neither the petitioner was knowledgeable of his choice nor was a discover issued to the petitioner earlier than passing the impugned order of debarment. Furthermore, it’s submitted that among the newspapers are carrying the data that the petitioner has been debarred from additional appointment as a judicial member of the Central Administrative Tribunal.”
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