Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 19, 2010:
A single bench of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench today stayed promotion to the additional chief engineer of the state Public Work Department (PWD) till February 26 next until government announces actual sanctioned post of engineers of the department.
The ruling of Justice Maibam Binoykumar of the Imphal Bench of the Gauhati High Court was pronounced today after a hearing in the court in response to the petition filed by Mutum Thaimon, senior most superintendent engineer (mechanical) of the department.
Advocate M Debananda was the counsel of the petitioner in the hearing.
The respondent of the case were Manipur government, chief engineer N Lokendro of PWD, engineers, Ch Tiken, Pradip Mukherjee, M Hemanta and Shantikumar.
In his petition to the court, petitioner filed the writ petition stating that an order of the state government with regard to the reorganization of PWD on August 11, 2009 hurt the service matter of the mechanical engineers of the department.