"We are sorry. We are not agreeing and are dismissing the petition. We will pass detailed order later," a vacation bench of justices V Kameswar Rao and I S Mehta said while rejecting the plea.
A day before his tenure of deputation comes to an end tomorrow, Chaturvedi, whose plea was rejected by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), had sought some work other than signing pension cheques.
Chaturvedi, who served as the chief vigilance officer at AIIMS from 2012-14, said the only work he currently has was to sign pension cheques and all other works allocated to him were withdrawn on the orders of institute's director.
He has challenged work withdrawal order of AIIMS director, saying "it's an attempt to humiliate him for his action against corrupt practices in the institute."
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Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain, appearing for the Centre, opposed the plea saying how can an employee challenge the allocation of work if he cannot challenge the service conditions.
The ASG also said Chaturvedi's request for change of his cadre from Haryana to Uttarakhand had been allowed which happened in "very rare" cases.
"He (Chaturvedi) has problems with many political establishments. It there is malafide, why would the present government allow his plea for change of cadre from Haryana to Uttarakhand," Jain argued.
He said that Chaturvedi has challenged the work withdrawal orders in the CAT which had held that he was being allotted some duty.
In the petition, he said the work withdrawal order made the post of deputy secretary defunct even though it was specially created by an order dated June 23, 2011 passed by the Union Health Ministry.
Gonsalves said under the June 23, 2011 office memorandum, the Centre had given some work to him, including preventing corruption at AIIMS, and this cannot be taken away.