Dr. AK Handa wrote

Dear Sirs,

• Recently the Chandigarh bench of AFT heard a bunch of contempt petitions, May 21- 23 2012, being designated by the honourable court for this purpose.
• DACP case too came up for hearing.
• In the affidavit filed by one of the respondents to the contempt proceedings, a prayer was made to the honourable court to grant another six months as the file had come back from Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) in April 2012 (after being there for almost two months) with some observations, which needed to be discussed & sorted out at Ministry of Defence (MoD).
• The honourable judge however was of the opinion that this was not the stage for sorting out the observations for which adequate time had already been given, but for implementation of its judgement. He rightly observed that besides the three months time limit given by the court in its judgement dated 18 Jul 2011 for implementation of the DACP for the armed forces doctors (Aug 2011 to Nov 2011),another additional approximately six months had elapsed since then (Nov 2011 to May 2012) without DACP seeing the light of the day. He also observed that once a contempt notice has been filed, these prayers are infructuous. Besides, as alluded to in the contempt prayer dated 18 Mar 2012, by the respondents own admission, they had agreed to implement the DACP scheme for uniformed doctors by 31 Dec 2011, which too had not been honoured. 
• Hence the court refused to accept the plea for an additional six months time.
• Hence the contempt petition has not been disposed off, with the honourable court giving a fresh date of 9 Aug 2012 for the respondents to inform the court about the progress with regards to  implementation of DACP scheme.
• The Chandigarh bench of AFT would be on summer vacation in the month of June 2012.
• It needs to be seen what fresh prayers would be put up to the court on 9 Aug 2012..!  
• Keeping fingers firmly crossed & thought of sharing the same with all of you.  

Warm Regards,

AKH

REJOINDER BY DAE SUBMITTED

Dear friends ..finally DAE has submitted a Rejoinder on 6th Feb,2012. I will send copies to all Doctors or I will post it on this website for your comments if it is a small note but I hear that its 50 to 60 pages where in they have repeated the same old story except a new twist now ..they say that the "cabinet decision  regrding DACP" is only a news report. If it is only a news report then my question is why has it been implemented by Health Ministry, Defence Ministry, Railway Ministry, Home Ministry and other Deprtments. Does the Govt. implement policies based on news reports or it is after Cabinet approval.
The following is the letter recieved from our lawer.

Gopal Sankaranarayanan gsanks@gmail.com


Dear Dr.Sen,
Dr Alex has picked up a copy of the Rejoinder this morning. You can peruse it and send me your comments. The listing of the case on 9th was for the hearing by the Registrar. There still has to be an official order from the Registrar listing it before the Court for the final hearing. Hence, the hearing on the 9th will only be a formality before the Registrar.
Regards,
Gopal.

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Department has submitted financial implications and calculation of the
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Sir,
Department has submitted financial implications and calculation of the
money on implementation of DACP and submitted in the Supreme Court
last week


AEDAK Doctors


Supreme Court Lawers Response

From: Gopal Sankaranarayanan

To: aedak doctors

Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:39 PM

Subject: Re: Regarding counteraffidavit from DAE

Dear Sir,

The SLP has been filed by the Union of India. The counter has been filed by us. Now it is for the DAE to file a Rejoinder to the SLP, which has not been done. We have not been served any fresh documents in the case after our Counter was filed.

Kindly confirm from the source of your information and revert.

Warm regards,

Gopal Sankaranarayanan.