In a contempt case regarding the seniority of IAS officials, the Telangana High Court issued a notice to the secretary of the Union ministry of personnel and public grievances, Mr. P. K. Tripathi to provide an appropriate explanation within two weeks, as to why he did not implement the order of the HC with regard to adjusting the seniority of five conferred IAS officers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
A division bench involving Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice S. Nanda was hearing the contempt case filed by conferred IAS officers, G.S.R.K.R. Vijay Kumar, K.R.B.H.N. Chakravarthy, M. Girija Shankar, from AP cadre and G. Kishan from Telangana cadre and G. Ravi Babu, a retired IAS officer from Hyderabad.
According to them, they lost their seniority of more than eight years because of inordinate delay in completing selections of IAS after completing the cadre review which was to be done once every five years.
The bench directed assistant solicitor general Namavarapu Rajeswara Rao to get instructions from the Union secretary in this regard and inform the court by July 29.
