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 Deployment of ITS Group ‘A’ Officers in BSNL : The contempt case on ITS issue in Hon'ble High Court of Delhi was listed for hearing on dated 19.03.2014 as CASE No. 227/2013 in Court No. 7 before Hon'ble Justice S.K. Misra at the High Court of Delhi at New Delhi. Mr. Rajshekhar Rao appeared on behalf of the Petitioners. Mr. Sikri appeared on behalf of BSNL and Mr. Vaibhav Kalra appeared on behalf of DOT. The case is posted for hearing on 14.10.2014. AIBSNLEA is party in this case along with BSNLEU and SNEA. The writ petition filed by AIBSNLEA, BSNLEU and SNEA came for hearing on 12.08.2014, the Hon'ble Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench at New Delhi. However, as Court No. 1 was not sitting on 18.04.2013, the matter was heard in Court No.2 before the bench comprising of Hon'ble Mr. George Paracken and Hon'ble Mr. Sudhir Kumar. Mr. Rajshekhar Rao appeared on behalf of the Applicants. Counsel for DOT entered appearance. However nobody appeared for B.S.N.L. After hearing the submissions put forward by Mr. Rao, the Hon'ble Tribunal was pleased to admit the matter and therefore issued notice to the Respondents. Mr. Rao's submissions were two fold, firstly the contumacious disregard of the Order of the Hon'ble High Court in W.P. 22515/2005 and the consistent effort of the Respondents to issue the Orders which virtually supersede a judicial decision which in itself was illegal. Secondly, it was submitted that the officers who had not exercised the option at the material time were now being deployed to BSNL which will gravely prejudice the promotional benefits of the Applicants. Notice has been issued on the prayer made for stay of the Impugned Orders and the Respondents have been directed to file a Reply as regards the same. The captioned matter has been notified for hearing on 17.09.2014. Contempt Case at Hon'ble High Court, Delhi on ITS deputation: The case was listed for hearing on 21.05.2015. In the contempt matter, DoT submitted an undertaking to the Hon'ble Court to correct its earlier order and implementing the judgment in a phased manner by relieving the ITS officers in bunches of 100 on year to year basis. Full details of the submission will be uploaded after receiving it from our lawyer. Hon'ble High Court posted the matter to 31.07.2015, after the vacations giving another opportunity to the Government to comply with the original order. On 31.07.2015, the contempt case was heard in the Hon’ble High Court at length and posted for 18.11.2015 for further hearing. The Contempt is still continued. However, in compliance to the Hon’ble High Court directives BSNL relieved 94 ITS officers on repatriation to DoT before hearing on 31.07.2015. Now, 86 ITS officers are expected to be redeployed in BSNL shortly. Court Case for Quashing of the redeployment order of ITS officers in BSNL: The matter was listed on 18.08.2015 before the Central Administration Tribunal, Principal Bench as Item no 17. The Bench was not inclined to hear the matter in view of the contempt petition pending before the High Court. However, our advocate submitted that the relief in the contempt petition and the present application are entirely different and requested that the matter be heard after the contempt petition is heard on 18.11.2015 in view of certain developments by the department, which the Hon'ble High Court was still considering. Accordingly, the matter has now been adjourned to 07.12.2015. TELEWAVE Page-48 AUGUST-2015