Absorb Mohanty without posting: HC to TS
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday impressed upon the advocate-general to ensure that the order of Central Administrative Tribunal allotting Telangana cadre to IPS officer Abhishek Mohanty is complied with. Prasad seeking a ‘short adjournment’ to get instructions from chief secretary Somesh Kumar on whether or not he would implement the CAT order, the court adjourned the matter to March 15. Hearing a petition filed by the CS seeking a stay on the CAT order, a division bench comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice A Venkateswar Reddy suggested that Mohanty could be absorbed into the state cadre and kept without posting till a case filed by the Union ministry of home affairs challenging the CAT order is disposed. The bench observed that it had to stay all CAT orders, including the one that allowed the chief secretary Somesh Kumar to continue in the Telangana cadre, if his present petition seeking stay on Mohanty’s order was granted.