HC levies fine on polytechnic

Condemning the management of a private polytechnic for not providing subsistence allowance to a suspended employee, the Madras High court levied a fine of Rs 25,000 on it with a direction to pay the money to the Government rehabilitation home for leprosy patients.
Justice D Hariparanthaman, allowing the petition filed by M Stephen Sahayaprasad, the suspended employee, rejected the contention of the correspondent and Principal in charge of the Kamaraj Polytechnic college in Kanyakumari that the allowance was not given because the Petitioner's wife was employed in a government aided school, his employed daughter was married off and his son was also assistant professor in an engineering college.

The Judge said it seemed that the college had taken a defenite stand that the Petitioner was not entitled for subsistance alloance in view of the employment of son daughter and wife."I have no hesitation to reject the aforesaid plea of the respondent college"
"If the college has chosen to place the petitioner under suspension then it is bound to pay subsistence allowance and denaial amounts to violative of the constitution as it amount to dprival of livelihood " the judge said.