Five Indian administrative service (IAS) officers took place before the Madras High Court to visit homes/orphanages, spent time with prisoners there and arrange lunch or dinner from their personal means to clean up with contempt.
The justice of Batta Devanand (since moving to Andhra Pradesh) recorded the content of the written obligation submitted by officers Ias Kumar Jayant, SK Prabakar, V. Rajaraman, P. Kumaravel Pandian and D. Baskara Pandian.
“After visiting homes, the decisionrs will file an affidavit on the (court) of that High Court on the service they provided (prisoners) within a week to allow the registrar to leave the same in the record for examining the court,” the judge ordered.
After the judge was satisfied with the obligation filed on the name of five IAS officers, the judge concluded a contemptuous proceedings against them with a warning that “if any account could not fulfill this company, the register reopens the petition and puts it in front of this court.”
Three temporary government drivers C. Chinnathambi, M. Krishnamurty and P. Anandhan for alleged disobedience of the order approved by Judge C. Saravanan on 29 September 2021 were submitted by a court petition to regulate their services and absorb them in permanent positions.
Their legal representative of K. Balu announced it to the court that although the court order was finally observed and the services of all three petitioners were regularized, complaining that there was a delay of almost three years in compliance with the court order to lose wages for this period.
Devanand, which serves as a petitioner serving as drivers, 21 July 2025 (the day before its transfer), suggested that five IAS officers could pay 1.25 lakh from their personal funds to three proposers to compensate for their collective currency loss around £ 6.
However, when the next advocate P. Kumaresan said it would be too difficult, the judge said, officers could instead visit any home or orphanage, spend time with prisoners to motivate them and also buy lunch or dinner from personal means.
Although AAG easily agreed and said, the proceedings could be concluded by recording the oral enterprise of four out of five officers present in court, the judge refused to accept the oral submission and insisted that he should submit a written obligation in this sense.
The judge stated that although the decision -makers offered an unconditional apology before the court after admitting the delay in compliance with the order 2021, it must prove that the apology was Bonafide and not just the lip of the penalty.
In accordance with the decrease of contempt, July 22, 2025 (the last day of justice Devanand at the Madras High Court), five officers were submitted by a written obligation on behalf of five officers.
Published – July 24, 2025 21:58
