HC refuses to interfere with CAT's order on IIMC professor

The Delhi High Court today refused to interfere with the order of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had declined to grant any immediate relief to a sacked IIMC academic associate.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar said that Narendra Singh Rao, former academic associate of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), can raise the issue before the tribunal which has already scheduled the hearing on January 30.
The tribunal by its January 5 order had said that any fresh appointment made by IIMC shall be subject to the outcome of the application pending before it.
Advocates Arush Khanna and Paurush Kumar represented IIMC in the matter.

Rao, who was appointed as an academic assistant in August 2010, had approached CAT challenging the termination order of December 21, 2016 seeking forthwith restoration of his employment contract and resumption of his services.
In his plea before the high court, he had sought setting aside of IIMC's December 21 order and a direction to the institute to forthwith reinstate him.
His plea had came up for hearing before CAT, which had issued notice to the institute but had refused to stay the order and restoration of services at this stage.