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TN Additional CS Prabakar faces contempt music

By IndianMandarins- 21 Dec 2020
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TN additional chief secretary S K Prabakar faces a Madras HC statutory notice in contempt of court case for having failed to implement a court order passed in 2019.

The 2019 division court order was clear: “.... a mere perusal of the impugned order, namely the order of the authority, would itself demonstrate that the evidence let in on the side of the department does not categorically impute any misconduct against the petitioner.”

Yet the TN administration, despite repeated reminders from the petitioner, did not implement the order.

So a division bench of Justice M M Sundresh Justice P T Asha was constrained to pass the contempt order last week. 

The contempt plea was moved by additional deputy superintendent of police V K Surendranath who is due for retirement in June 2021. 

 Surendranath, who was placed under disciplinary proceedings in 2012 with the imposition of censure by the then additional chief secretary till 2017, had moved the court against the Additional CS order since all his juniors were promoted during the duration of his punishment and he was made to work under them.

A division bench of the HC quashed the order of the additional CS in 2019 against Surendranath and directed him to consider promoting the additional DSP.

However, the order was never implemented.

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