Former AIIMS CVO Sanjiv Chaturvedi has, in a fresh affidavit to the Central Administrative Tribunal, accused the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister of dealing with his case of inter-cadre deputation to the Delhi government in a "partisan and biased" manner.
"The main reason for pendency of the proposal of inter- cadre deputation of the applicant for more than one year, despite fulfilling all the eligibility conditions by the applicant and concurrence of both the state governments being on record, and despite favourable conditions from this Hon'ble Tribunal is that, right from the beginning the case was dealt in a partisan and biased manner, by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet headed by the Hon'be Prime Minister and the concerned Union Ministers," the officer said in the affidavit.
The Indian Forest Service officer also annexed a document dated August 23, 2014, addressed by Luv Verma, the then Union Health Secretary to Niprendra Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister which reads: "The Hon'be Prime Minister of India had a telephonic discussion with the Hon'ble Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare regarding relieving of additional charge of CVO AIIMS, New Delhi from Shri Sanjiv Chaturvedi, DS, AIIMS, New Delhi.
"A detailed note in this regard is submitted for perusal of Hon'ble Prime."
These documents are part of affidavit filed by the officer in CAT regarding his case of inter-cadre deputation to Delhi government which is hanging fire for the past one year.
Delhi government had written to the Centre to depute Chaturvedi as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the office of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The officer, in his affidavit, has alleged that after this telephonic call, he was subjected to "extreme harassment" and slander campaign and between February 2015 and March 2016, he was compelled to approach courts seven times on various service issues.
The first instance was proposal of cadre transfer to Uttarakhand, which was kept pending for about six months in ACC and then it was ordered in January 2015 to seek fresh consent from state governments instead of approving the proposal. This order of ACC was quashed by Tribunal in May 2015.
He has further alleged that personal mala fide of Prime Minister Office against him has reached such an extent that even the issue of donation of Magsaysay Award money for welfare of poor patients was not spared with PMO raising frivolous queries.
"When the applicant approached with a fresh cheque in
favour of Prime Minister National Relief Fund, even Prime Minister Office raised frivolous queries and stated that they do not accept conditional donations when in fact no conditions were imposed with the said donation and it was absolutely unconditional.
"Finally after being informed about the intentions of the applicant to take legal recourse in a Court of Law, the Prime Minister Office accepted the said amount," he said in the affidavit.
The officer, who was conferred the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award last year, also claimed that the ever-changing stand of Uttarakhand government was result of pressure of the Centre which was evident from the fact that in four months between November 2015 to February 2016 it changed its position regarding grant of NOC, three times without any change in the material position.
He also accused the Centre of "crushing honesty and promoting, encouraging and awarding corrupt officials and politicians".
In his affidavit, Chaturvedi alleged that 19 of the 39 cases of inter-cadre deputation cleared by ACC in past two years did not fall under eligibility criteria.
Chaturvedi who is currently posted as Deputy Secretary at AIIMS, New Delhi has also annexed copies of 39 orders passed by the ACC to support his claims.
The officer said he has lost all the faith in ACC and requested the CAT to summon the records of all those cases.
"...An unprecedented and relentless witch hunting is going on against the applicant on personal and professional fronts and for each of his service matters including work, allocation, promotion, writing of APR, inter-cadre transfer, inter-cadre deputation etc.
"The applicant has been repeatedly forced to approach this Hon'ble Tribunal to get justice and the most unfortunate part is that even after strongly worded advice/observations of this Hon'ble Tribunal to ACC, while declaring its illegal orders as infructuous, has not been able to have any impact and rather the victimisation of the applicant accentuated after the same...," the affidavit said.
