‘A cover up’: Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court fumes over change of employee’s service record post retirement

Protecting the retiree rights, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently set aside a Jammu Development Authority (JDA) order that sought to revise the service records of a retired employee.

Justice Rahul Bharti was hearing a plea of a retired employee of JDA against the vice chairperson’s order of revision of the service book, after his retirement, in alignment with the 1985 service regularisation order of the high court.

“It is the concerned establishment of the JDA, which was supposed to remain alert and alive to the corresponding developments related to the service career of the petitioner in the context of his original engagement,” the court said on January 15.

The court said that the 2020 order issued by the deputy director, local fund audit and pensions, Jammu, showed that it was “nothing but a cover-up” by the JDA on its own act of “omission and commission” to the prejudice of the petitioner.

Jagriti Rai works with The Indian Express, where she writes from the... Read More