Saurabh Malik
Tribune Information Service
Chandigarh, June 21
The Punjab Cabinet’s decision to give government employment to sons of social gathering MLAs Fatehjang Singh Bajwa and Rakesh Pandey these days came underneath judicial scanner with the submitting of a petition in general public interest just before the Punjab and Haryana Higher Courtroom.

Final decision in favour of ‘influential and prosperous persons’, states petitioner

The petition submitted by advocate Bikramjit Singh Bajwa from the Union of India, Ministry of Dwelling Affairs, and other respondents, was “mentioned” prior to the Substantial Court this morning for getting listened to owing to an component of urgency included in the issue. It has been acknowledged for hearing all through the ongoing summer time vacation and is predicted to appear up for thought in advance of a Division Bench this week.
Among other matters, Bajwa — who has submitted the filed the petition in human being — has sought instructions to the respondents to apply brakes to the appointments sought to be offered on compassionate ground.
Between other matters, Bajwa has taken the ground that the final decision to give federal government positions was in violation of the coverage governing compassionate appointments. Apart from, the determination came after a hold off of 37 decades in the favour of “very influential and prosperous persons” who have been the authorized heirs of the MLAs.
Bajwa has further more submitted that the appointments on community posts of inspector and naib tehsildar could not be specified in an arbitrary and unconstitutional way. This was specially appropriate as hundred of suitable persons, who had dropped their father or breadearner whilst undertaking their obligation to the point out, were being dismissed.
In his “mentioning plea”, Bajwa said: “The prayer is for listing the scenario during the holiday seasons as the public appointments are currently being manufactured in haste. Individuals who have been selected are by now properly-off right after a hole of 37 a long time.”