High Court summons Khushwant Singh Shetty for physical appearance following violation of court order

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, March 21, 2023

Acting tough on violation of order passed by it earlier the high court of Tripura yesterday summoned Khushwant Singh Shetty, principal secretary in the department of science and technology, to physically appear in the court tomorrow for holding up the pension of a retired employee and for not releasing it in violation of court order passed earlier. According to details of the case available from high court, Nataraj Dutta, principal scientific officer in the department of science and technology, had gone on retirement on October 31 2019 but the department held up his promotion on the ground that he had two pending departmental cases against him. One of the cases related to his purported comment against then BJP MP Pratima Bhowmik but since there was no evidence or witness he had got clean chit. Another case was related to filing of unauthorized affildavit in court but this also proved to be false as Nataraj had filed the affidavit upon orders from then secretary of the department Shailendra Singh and the affidavit had actually been prepared and approved by the law department.

But, nevertheless, Nataraj’s pension was held up and even though there is a rule that in the event of a pending case against a retiring employee 90% of pension must be granted . Nataraj was not given even a single coin. Let with no other alternative Nataraj had approached the high court which passed an order on March directing the department of sciece and technology to clear his pension by 18th March but this was not done by the department. After being informed of this, the high court yesterday expressed its displeasure and annoyance and directed the principal secretary Khushwant Singh Shetty to physically appear in the court tomorrow , that is March 22 and explain his department’s conduct and non-compliance with the high court order.


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