With this order, the PPT authorities are now one step closer to suspend Misro, who had been booked by the CBI under Prevention of Corruption Act for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
A Division Bench of Justices B P Das and B K Nayak vacated the stay it had granted in July this year restraining the port authorities from giving effect to the May 21, 2012 suspension order handed over to Misro.
The Bench vacated the stay when the High Court was informed by the Port authorities that the Central government has in the meantime approved the suspension order.
However, the High Court in its order also made it clear that the suspension order on the port traffic manager shall now be subjected to the result of a writ petition filed by Misro, which is now in the final stage of adjudication by the High Court.