SC contempt notice to Bihar babus, former chief secretary

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has prima facie held former Bihar chief secretary Tripurari Sharan and serving officials, including the principal secretary of finance department to be guilty for contempt of court and asked them to personally appear before it to explain why they shouldn’t be punished for not complying with its order to grant

pensionary and retiral benefits

to some of the

state govt employees

, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.

A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai said

non-compliance of SC’s directions

“is wilful and deliberate and amounts to contempt of this court”. The case pertains to claims of state government employees who were asked to join the treasury department from various corporations in the aftermath of fodder scam but their tenure at corporations were not considered by state for pensionary and retiral benefits.

The employees thereafter approached the SC through their lawyer Somesh Chandra Jha and the court passed the order in their favour.