CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has pulled up government officials for filing a vexatious and frivolous writ petition challenging the orders of TN Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal relating to appointment of a person to IAS cadre. Originally, K Madalaimuthu, a direct-recruit District Registrar, who joined service in 1989, filed an application before the CAT seeking a direction to the authorities to appoint him to the IAS by selection in terms of the IAS (appointment by selection) Regulation 1997 against five vacancies notified for 2007 in the light of a Madras HC order passed in February last year, with all consequential benefits. Disposing of the application, the CAT on May 31 last year, directed the officials to consider and appoint Madalaimuthu to the IAS. Aggrieved, the Chief Secretary, secretaries of Public, Commercial Taxes and Registration departments and Inspector-General of Registration filed the present writ plea. Dismissing it, a division Bench consisting of Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal observed that every time, Madalaimuthu was being driven from pillar to post by the authorities, presumably since he approached the judicial forums for relief. “We are forced to comment so, since in spite of the order of the SC (in an earlier round of litigation), the petitioners have exhibited slackness and purposely slowed down the implementation of the order of the SC, leading to the filing of contempt pleas by Madalaimuthu.” Having already deprived the officer of his due, the officials have again come forward to file the present plea, as if the Tribunal’s order was illegal. The Bench held that the plea was a vexatious litigation to further buy time, in order to deprive Madalaimuthu of his due. It confirmed the Tribunal’s order and directed officials to comply with it within two weeks.
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