RECRUITMENT SCAM :UP rushes to SC to save its babus from contempt in HC

The Mayawati government on Thursday rushed to the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Allahabad HC’s decision to initiate contempt proceedings against its top bureaucrats and cops in connection with the constable recruitment scam.

The HC had quashed the Mayawati government’s decision to cancel the appointment of 18,000 constables recruited during Mulayam Singh Yadav’s regime. The Mayawati government had alleged that there were widespread irregularities in the appointments. The HC had said that the state should separate the tainted candidates and only their appointment should be cancelled.

When no step towards implementation of the HC order was taken, some candidates moved the HC seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the principal secretary (home) and DGP. The HC had issued notice to the alleged contemnors on their petition.

To protect the bureaucrat and the top cop, the state moved a special leave petition (SLP) in the SC seeking stay of the contempt proceedings. SC issued notice on the SLP but did not grant stay. Taking into account the non-grant of stay, the HC gave a deadline to the Mayawati government to comply with its order by May 27 and warned that failure to do so would invite framing of contempt charges.

With hardly a week left, the state rushed to SC with an application seeking stay of the contempt proceedings. Additional advocate general Shail Kumar Dwivedi told a bench comprising Justices Katju and Deepak Verma that entire recruitment process was vitiated as examiners were biased.

“It is not possible to separate the tainted from the non-tainted in view of the largescale irregularities across all the 42 recruitment boards... Even if segregation is to be made, the result sought to be arrived at after separation of the tainted cannot be said to be fair in view of the fact that irregularities had taken place at all stages of recruitment,” the state said.
Source:- The Times of India 22 May 2009 P. 13 Delhi

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