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Ex-servicemen squat on rail tracks for 12 hours in Punjab's Patiala; train movement hit
Patiala, November 25
A group of ex-servicemen squatted on railway tracks at the Shambhu railway station in this Punjab district for nearly 12 hours on Saturday when they were stopped from heading to Delhi for a protest over alleged anomalies in the “One Rank One Pension” (OROP) scheme, officials said.
The protest affected the train movement on the section, the Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said.
After being assured by officials from the district administration that the governor would meet them, the protesters lifted the dharna at about 4:30 pm, they added.
Some of the protesters had said earlier in the day that they were headed to Delhi on various modes of transport when they were stopped by police from entering Haryana via the Shambhu border.
A GRP official said the movement of trains going towards Delhi, Jammu and Amritsar was affected due to the protest.
“The dharna has been lifted and normal movement of trains restored,” he said.
Sources said around 250 ex-servicemen sat on the dharna at the railway station in the morning, but their number increased later on.
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Non-Compliance' With AFT Order On Pension - Punjab & Haryana HC Issues Contempt Notice To Sr. Defence Ministry Official
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice for contempt against Alka Sharma, principal integrated financial adviser at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Major General Ashok Singh, the additional director general of personnel services.
The bench of Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan issued the notice Friday. The issue pertains to the matter of retirees of the rank of honorary naib subedars who were not paid interest on their pension arrears as directed by the
Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) in 2017.
After repeated non-compliance and non-appearance of the concerned officers, the Chandigarh bench of the AFT issued notice for contempt and arrest warrants against the officers. The MoD then approached the high court against the warrants and the contempt proceedings.
Recording the undertaking that the MoD would comply with the orders of AFT by August 30, 2023, a division bench had then directed that the warrants would be kept in abeyance in case the concerned officers filed an affidavit of compliance by personally appearing in the AFT on the date fixed.
Though the officers then appeared in the AFT, the compliance affidavit was not filed, and rather, on the application of one of the officers, Alka Sharma, the contempt case itself was later transferred from the Chandigarh bench to the principal bench in by the AFT chairperson.
The main petitioner, Honorary Naib Subedar Roop Lal, a senior citizen, approached the high court under contempt jurisdiction stating that the undertaking made before the division bench was flouted by the officers and that the contemnors by getting the case transferred to Delhi have succeeded to oust the jurisdiction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had passed orders for compliance.
It has also been stated that the high court orders had regrettably not been taken note of by the AFT chairperson while transferring the case and that the orders of a constitutional court (high court) have been circumvented by an administrative order by the chairperson of a statutory tribunal, that too, without notice to the affected party.
The contempt petition has been filed by AS Narang, Rajesh Sehgal and Bhim Sen Sehgal, advocates for the petitioner.
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