Supreme Court sensational verdict

Supreme Court, which earlier has obliged the Central government to follow its orders of disqualifying the people’s representatives those who were convicted by the courts from contesting in the elections, later makes the Election Commission introduce a ‘Reject Button’ in Electronic voting Machines, thus to give a choice to people to reject the contestants, if they believe none of them deserved to be elected.

Today once again, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice K S Radha Krishnan asks the IAS officers not to follow the verbal orders given by the political executives, instead demand for orders in written form, so as to insulate themselves from transfers, punishments for not their faults.

The bench also asks the Centre and all State governments along with Union Territories to issue directions within three months for providing fixed tenure to civil servants. It asks the governments to constitute Civil Services Board at the Centre and State-levels.

The apex court opines that giving a fixed minimum tenure to a civil servant will promote professionalism, efficiency and also led to good governance. The bench also asked the Central government to pass a bill that regulates matters related to IAS official’s postings, transfers and disciplinary action against them.

IAS officer Ashok Khemka of Haryana cadre got transferred for more than 42 times in a short span of 2 years by the Haryana government and he hits the bull’s eye by ordering investigation into DLF-Robert Vadra land deal only to be shunted to some unimportant position.

The story is of Durga Sakhti Nagpal of UP cadre is also no different from him. Akhilesh Yadav government suspends her framing false charges against her, who boldly took-upon the sand mafia, which has links with some ministers in Akhilesh government.

After seeing repetition of such bad experiences to honest IAS officers like them, Public Interest litigation was filed by 83 retired bureaucrats including former Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramanian seeking its directions for insulating bureaucracy from political interference and the Supreme Court responds very positively on it.