SUPREME COURT WAIVES COST IMPOSED ON CHATURVEDI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has waived the cost of ₹50,000 on Sanjiv Chaturvedi imposed by the Punjab and Haryana high court for non-filing of the reply in this case.

The HC order had come on a plea of Haryana government seeking quashing of the President’s order dropping the chargesheet against Chaturvedi.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the HC to look into the contention of Chaturvedi, who said that a similar petition was pending before the apex court and asked it to decide the issue after hearing both parties.

and IAS officer Keshni Anand Arora in application, alleging “he was made to suffer tremendous stress, loss, energy, time and money for defending and exposing scams and misdeeds of corrupt officers and politicians”.

Meanwhile, the HC deferred hearing on another plea filed in the same matter by a UP cadre IPS officer Amitabh Thakur (now Lucknow IGP), who has also requested the court to include him as party in the dispute stating that issue had vital implication for All-india services (AIS) officers.

“That it is a well-known fact that many honest and sincere AIS officers have suffered tremendously at the hands of unscrupulous politicians because of their refusal to follow illegal orders and departmental chargesheets, suspension and other departmental proceedings,” he has stated.