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| Despite court direction, SRTC driver denied 40-month salary | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: The government departments and public sector undertakings have made it a habit of throwing the court directions in dustbin and they follow their own course of action in matters where the court has already given some direction.
Same has happened with the case of a driver of State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC). This hapless driver has been running from pillar to post in order to seek justice, but the same has eluded him so far. The impact of denial of justice has led to health vagaries for this driver, but still then the concerned people are un-moved.
In November 2008 the SRTC driver Mohammad Yaqub Khan went to the court challenging his transfer from TSD Srinagar to Cargo Parimpora (Load Division). It took the SRTC higher ups more than three years to 'respond' to the case and it was in March 2012 the case was ultimately 'settled'.
On March 7, 2012, a local court here while pronouncing judgment in the case of Yaqub said that he would join his new place of posting on March 18, 2012. The judge Manzoor Ahmad Zargar directed the SRTC authorities to ensure that Yaqub is transferred back to TSD Srinagar after a gap of one month.
The court also ordered that all the dues pending to the driver should be paid to him at the earliest and in this regard he is at liberty to approach any officer of the corporation with a written application. It was expected that the SRTC would honour the judgment and pay the pending salary to the driver, but that was not to be.
The SRTC higher ups started paying salary to Yaqub on regular basis once he rejoined his duties in March 2012. However, they remained tight lipped over the pending salary and promised to the driver that the same would be paid to him as well. Although, four years have passed since then the pending salary has not been released so far.
"Despite the court issuing an order in my favour the pending salary has not been released in my favour. This is sheer injustice and I have become a victim of dictatorial policies of the corporation higher ups. My salary for the 40 months from November 2008 to February 2012 has been kept withheld by the corporation for the reasons best known to them," said Yaqub while talking to Early Times.
Yaqub said that he got targeted when he exposed the oil 'scam' in the corporation adding that since then he has been victimized. He said that he got go know about the scam when he went to higher ups that he saved some oil adding that they told him to ignore the matter and show the un-spent oil as spent. "I had availed a housing loan and same could not be re-payed since I was suspended from the services. I was forced to abolish one of the policies of my daughter in order to carry out the daily chores of life. I became a patient due to the wrong policies of the people at helm and at present I have to spend Rs. 5,000 on medicines on monthly basis," said Yaqub. When contacted Managing Director SRTC, G A Sofi said that period of service between November 2008 and February 2012 has been considered as dies-non and as such the driver is not entitled to pay and other perks during this period. Sofi accused Yaqub of beating up a General Manager of the corporation who was looking after his case and said that the conduct of the driver has not been up to the mark during his service period. |
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