शर्मनाक रवैया : 1993 में सेवानिवृत्त कर्मचारी को पेंशन न देने पर हाईकोर्ट तल्ख, तीन जिलों के अफसरों से पूछा कैसे करेंगे भुगतान?
■ सेवा पंजिका गायब होने का मामला
■ तीन जिलों के अफसरों से पूछा कैसे करेंगे भुगतान
प्रयागराज । इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने एटा व अलीगढ़ की सेवा पंजिका गायब होने के कारण 30 साल की सेवा के बाद 31 दिसंबर 1993 को रिटायर मुख्य खाद्य निरीक्षक को पेंशन व सेवानिवृत्ति परिलाभ व उसकी पारिवारिक पेंशन न देने के ब्यूरोक्रेटिक रवैये की तीव्र आलोचना की है।
कोर्ट ने फर्रुखाबाद से रिटायर याची के पति के भुगतान की स्थिति की जानकारी के साथ फर्रुखाबाद, एटा व अलीगढ़ के डीएम व मुख्य चिकित्सा अधिकारियों से तीन दिन में व्यक्तिगत हलफनामा मांगा है और पूछा है कि सेवा पंजिका मिले या न मिले, तब भी किस तरह परिलाभों का भुगतान किया जाएगा। हलफनामे दाखिल न होने पर छहों अधिकारियों को 10 जून को हाजिर होने का निर्देश दिया है।
यह आदेश न्यायमूर्ति जेजे मुनीर ने सरस्वती देवी की याचिका की सुनवाई करते हुए दिया है। याची के पति 31 दिसंबर 1393 को सेवानिवृत्त हुए और 14 दिसंबर 1995 को उनकी मृत्यु हो गई । याची ने सेवानिवृत्ति परिलाभ सहित पारिवारिक पेंशन की मांग को लेकर याचिका की ।
याची का कहना है कि जनवरी 1994 से कोई भुगतान नहीं किया गया। सीएमओ फर्रुखाबाद ने डीएम को पत्र लिखकर कहा कि सेवा पंजिका उपलब्ध न होने के कारण पेंशन आदि का भुगतान नहीं किया जा सका। अलीगढ़ व एटा में तैनाती के दौरान के रिकॉर्ड उपलब्ध नहीं है। तीनों जिलों के डीएम व सीएमओ चुप्पी साधे बैठे रहे।
✍️ कोर्ट आर्डर
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
Court No. - 6
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8850 of 2022
Petitioner :- Saraswati Devi
Respondent :- State Of U P And 2 Others
Counsel for Petitioner :- Rohit Shukla
Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble J.J. Munir,J.
The petitioner's husband retired from the post of the Chief Food Inspector on 31.12.1993. He died on 24.12.1995. The pension of the petitioner's husband and the petitioner's family pension have not been paid since the month of January, 1994 and other post retiral benefits have also not been paid. In this connection, the attention of the Court has been drawn to a letter dated 10.12.2021 sent by the Chief Medical Officer, Farrukhabad to the District Magistrate, Farrukhabad. A reading of the letter is sufficient to make one's belief firm in the culpable insensitivity of functioning of the respondents, which deserves to be put down with a heavy hand. It shows that the petitioner's family pension and her husband's retiral benefits have not been paid because his service record is not traceable in consequence of his various postings at Etah and Aligarh during the relevant period of time preceding his retirement. It is almost 30 years that the petitioner's late husband retired and the Chief Medical Officer, Farrukhabad, and seemingly, the District Magistrate, Farrukhabad as also the District Magistrates and Chief Medical Officers of Aligarh and Etah are at peace with the idea that pension and post retiral benefits due to an employee cannot be paid because in their bureaucratic outlook the loss of record leading to non-payment of post retiral benefits to the widow of a deceased employee is a trifling.
Let the District Magistrates of Farrukhabad, Aligarh, Etah and the Chief Medical Officers of Farrukhabad, Aligarh and Etah, all file their personal affidavits indicating the correct position within three days. Also, the matter being very old, all the officers concerned will take a stand before this Court about the ways and means according to which the petitioner's family pension and her deceased husband's retirement pension, besides all other due post retiral benefits shall be paid. All the respondents will remember that payments of post retiral benefits have to be made whether the records are found or not. It is up to them to devise ways and means to do so and to do all this, they have three days' time, during which the requisite affidavits have to be filed.
In case, the requisite affidavits are not filed by any of the six officers, the officer in default shall remain personally present before the Court on 10th June, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
Lay this matter as fresh again on 10.06.2022 at 2:00 p.m.
Let a copy of this order be communicated to the District Magistrates of Farrukhabad, Aligarh, Etah and the Chief Medical Officers of Farrukhabad, Aligarh and Etah by the Registrar (Compliance) by tomorrow.
Order Date :- 7.6.2022
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