India, Jan. 20 -- The Orissa high court has issued an arrest warrant against Odisha's higher education secretary, Arvind Agarwal, for failing to implement the court order in connection with an increment of a government employee.

Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad issued a warrant, requiring the authorities to produce Agrawal, a 2007 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, on January 22. In his order, the bench said this was a case of "aggravated contempt" due to non-compliance with its court order and breach of the government's undertaking.

The order was passed on January 16 and uploaded to the high court's website on Tuesday.

However, the court provided a window for compliance, underlining that if the IAS officer complied with t...