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A sexagenarian father’s ineligible conflict to unafraid work benefits of his son, a constable of the Central Reserve Police Force who was missing for implicit a decade, ended with the Telangana High Court instructing authorities to process his claim.
A seat of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, pronouncing verdict successful a writ plea filed by M. Appa Rao, quashed the bid of CRPF’s authorities removing his missing son, Srikanth, from service. The CRPF’s disciplinary rules supply a abstracted forum for entreaty against the ‘missing’ constable’s removal from service.
But, ‘since the delinquent (Srikanth) has not been traceable each on till date, his guiltless begetter should not beryllium relegated to the alternate remedy of appeal’, the judgement said. The seat noted that Srikanth’s removal from work cannot beryllium sustained successful the eyes of instrumentality going by the facts and circumstances of the case.
In 2014, Srikanth was declared unfit for combat work since helium had an amputation of his near leg. After being referred to the Rehabilitation Board, helium preferred to be a machine people and joined CRPF Group Centre, Jharodakalan, New Delhi. Srikanth went missing from that field connected June 1, 2015 and was yet declared a deserter. Since helium was not traced, an ex-parte departmental enquiry was ordered which ended successful his removal from service.
In 2016, his begetter filed a writ petition seeking a absorption to assistance work benefits of his lad to the family. Srikanth did not spell missing portion connected off-duty. He went missing portion undergoing grooming astatine the Jhadokalan centre, which was nether the power of the authorities concerned. The officials took the plea that registers, records and CCTV footage of the acrophobic days either had been weeded retired oregon got erased.
The Baba Haridas Nagar constabulary of New Delhi mentioned that CRPF authorities themselves lodged a ailment astir Srikanth’s disappearance. The ‘CRPF authorities cannot beryllium absolved of their work of maintaining the records and the CCTV footage for the period,’ the seat noted. The officials were not capable to hint the missing worker for implicit 11 years portion helium was nether rehabilitation pursuing amputation of leg.
“If specified an attack is adopted by authorities of CRPF it would discourage the families from sending their wards to service the force,” the verdict said.
