Himachal HC orders immediate suspension of Registrar of HPU

The Himachal Pradesh High Court today today ordered immediate suspension of the Registrar of Himachal Pradesh University(HPU) for not complying with an order the court to regularise the services of a peon from retrospective date.
A division bench, comprising Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan, said in its order that "the Court takes a serious view of the manner in which the judgment has been violated by the respondent (Registrar Pankaj Lalit) and he is put under suspension forthwith. He will not discharge the duties from today itself."
A single bench of the High Court had on May 12 this year directed the University to regularise the services of the class IV employee retrospectively from June 8,1999 instead of April 12, 2006 but the orders were not implemented by the Registrar, the division bench said.

The Court said that "it is the bounden duty of the functionaries of the state/statutory boards/universities to implement the judgments/orders passed by the courts with promptitude" but in the instant case the respondent had not implemented the orders and directed the Registrar to file the reply within four weeks.
The respondent is an important functionary of the University under the Himachal Pradesh University Act and the statute framed thereunder and it was his bounden duty to obey the judgment passed by the Court, the order said.