High Court imposes Rs. 10,000 costs on Southern Railway

High Court  imposes Rs. 10,000 costs on Southern Railway

The Madras High Court on Monday imposed Rs. 10,000 as costs on Southern Railway for having repeatedly refused to appoint a person in a Group-D post on the ground that he was a diabetic.

The petitioner’s father, A. Mani, who was a trackman with the railways, died in January 2010 in service. Packiaraj applied for Group-D post on compassionate grounds.

But his application was rejected on the ground that he was found unfit in all classes of medical classifications as he was diabetic.

Packiaraj moved the Central Administrative Tribunal, which on August 8, 2014, directed the railways to consider him for the post. Challenging the decision of the CAT, Southern Railway moved the writ petition seeking the High Court to set aside the CAT directive. The Division Bench of Justice S. Manikumar and Justice G. Chockalingam noted that despite court order that diabetes could not be the basis for rejection of job applications, the railways had been making the petitioner to run from pillar to post.

Source :The Indian Express.