Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court directed the State Government to deposit Rs 1.75 lakh as cost for not following its orders about providing fringe benefits and pensions to part-time librarians as full-time librarians for about a year.
The HC bench comprising Justice Vibha Kankanwadi and Justice Sanjay Deshmukh ordered that if this amount of cost is collected, it should be distributed to the original seven applicants.
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What is original petition?
Sanjay Wadekar from Latur and five other part-time librarians from Nanded filed a petition in the bench through adv Tukaram Vyanjane for upgradation as full-time librarians.
The bench, as per the previous order, allowed submission of the petition and ordered that the petitioners should be given fringe benefits as full-time librarians from the day the number of students reached 1000 in the school where the petitioners were working. It had ordered that they should be given retirement pensions from the time they were part-time librarians.
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Review application without reason
The Government did not comply with the High Court order for about a year. However, it filed a review application without reason. After the hearing, the bench rejected the Government's review application and gave orders.