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Breather for Bengal police clubs

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published Published on Feb 8, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 8, 2012
-The Telegraph

Calcutta High Court today passed an interim order restraining the Bengal government from de-recognising police associations and evicting them from their offices across the state.

The bench stayed the government decision till February 9, when it asked the state home department to appear with documents related to the de-recognition order.

“The court wants to see the papers to ascertain what law had empowered the state to cancel the recognition of police bodies,” a court officer said after the bench decided to hear on that day a petition moved by three police associations.

On January 10, the state government had decided to de-recognise police bodies like the West Bengal Police Association, Non-Gazetted Police Association and the Police Karmachari Samity.

On January 17, the government issued notices asking them to vacate their offices as soon as possible. “Government offices will be set up in places where the associations’ offices are housed now,” the notification said.

Last week, the three police bodies moved the high court. Their plea came up before Justice Jayanta Biswas today.

Appearing for the Non-Gazetted Police Association, Congress leader Arunava Ghosh and former mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said the government’s decision was “arbitrary and unconstitutional”.

“The police bodies were recognised by the state government in 1956. These bodies have been working as social organisations and, besides policemen and their family members, the general public were also getting the benefit of the activities of the associations,” Ghosh told the court.

“These police bodies have no trade union activity. So, the government has no power to derecognise these bodies,” Bhattacharyya said.

The lawyers also alleged that in some districts, the government has been forcibly clearing their offices in violation of the law.

Government pleader Ashok Banerjee said: “What I have to say I will say when the matter comes up for hearing again.”

Plea against strike

The state government today urged employees not to strike work on February 28, “reminding” them of service rules.

“The government can exercise its discretion and stop such strikes from being held,” labour minister Purnendu Bose said.

The pro-Left All India State Government Employees’ Federation has called the strike to press for their six-point demands, including a minimum salary of Rs 10,000. This is in support of the countrywide strike called by Left trade unions. Federation sources said they planned to give the notice for the strike on February 14.

Bose said state government employees had to submit a month’s notice for a strike. “We are a new government. Please let us work first,” he said.

The Telegraph, 8 February, 2012, http://telegraphindia.com/1120208/jsp/frontpage/story_15107791.jsp


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