Summary:
CUTTACK: The Orissa high court on Monday refused to proceed with the case involving 274 fake appointments in the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), shrugging off the 15-year-old PIL on the job scam. "So there is no need to array all the affected employees as parties," the petitioner contended in the affidavit. There was neither any valid selection nor any valid appointment.The scam surfaced in June 2003 when the civic administration detected a large number of employees drawing salaries without any valid appointment since 1998. "Taking note of this along with the case records, the division bench of chief justice K S Jhaveri and justice K R Mohapatra expressed disinclination to proceed further with the case and disposed of the PIL," petitioner counsel Radharaman Dasnayak told TOI. The high court expressed disinclination to proceed after the petitioner said there was no need to include the beneficiaries of the scam as parties to the case.The court made it clear that the question of follow-up action on the cancellation of the illegal appointments in the CMC by the state could not be taken up without arraying the affected employees as parties to the case.The illegal appointments in the civic body related to different categories of the posts of sweeper, road gang, drain gang, de-weeding coolies, teacher, etc..