A petition was filed by the AP Gazetted Employees’ Association in the Andhra Pradesh High Court, against the pay revision announced by the Jagan government. A single-judge bench of the Andhra Pradesh state high court on Monday refused to hear the petition, stating that it involved a public interest litigation as well as personal grievances of the petitioners and referred it Chief Justice bench.
The single-judge bench ordered that all the employees’ union representatives appear before the bench in the afternoon, but they refused to do so, saying that they were not a party to the petition, and even refused the government’s call in the matter. The HC bench also said that the employees had no right to challenge the pay revision commission report in the court and that they have to talk to the government regarding the issue, as the court cannot do anything.
The HC bench said that the government has to make the decision when the petitioner argued that the government had not even shown the original PRC report to the employees. The bench even asked the employees to explain how the salaries have gone down compared to the last month, after the publication of the new GO.