The high court issued the notice for contempt for not complying with its order to look into the non-payment of wages to an airhostess.
Air India’s (AI) chairman and managing director (CMD) Arvind Jadhav has been issued a show-cause notice for contempt of court by the Bombay high court for not complying with its order to personally look into the non-payment of full wages to an airhostess who was sacked and then reinstated.
Justice SJ Kathawalla was hearing a contempt petition filed by Sanjana Jaykaran Singh. Her services were terminated by AI in 1998 on the allegation that she had carried cigarettes in excess of her entitlement through London Customs.
The court, in its August 21, 2010 order, had directed the CMD to personally decide her representation with regard to her wages from April 2003. The industrial tribunal in 2001 had declared AI’s order terminating Singh’s service as illegal and had directed her reinstatement.
AI moved the high court in appeal against the tribunal’s order but, during its pendency in 2003, had reinstated Singh. However, Singh was not being paid her full wages, which included her flying allowances. She filed a petition in the high court in 2009, urging direction to the airline to pay her in accordance with her entitlement. In August 2010, a division bench headed by justice
DK Deshmukh directed that her representation should be personally decided by the CMD and an order be passed within four weeks of receiving it.
Singh’s advocate Mohan Bir Singh argued that Jadhav received the representation on September 4, 2010, but did not respond despite three reminders and a legal notice. Singh thereafter filed a contempt petition. The show-cause notice for contempt of court issued to Jadhav is returnable after six weeks.
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