No Contempt power for CAT?

By Vijay Kumar

Is the Government planning to disobey the CAT? The Cabinet has approved a proposal to remove the contempt power of the Central Administrative Tribunal. A bill for this is to introduced in the next session of Parliament. Obeying court orders is not a favorite pastime with the bureaucrats and may be of late they must have come across unjust orders of the CAT which they did not want to implement, but were stuck with this inconvenient contempt power.