PATNA, India, May 16 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on May 14:
1. The present Writ Petition has been filed seeking a direction to the respondent-authorities to make payment of Rs. 17,10,570/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakh Ten Thousand Five Hundred Seventy only) towards the salary of 36 guards for the period from 01.04.2016 to 27.06.2016. A further relief sought for a direction to the respondents to pay statutory interest, as well as penal interest until the payment is made.
2. The brief facts, as culled out from the Writ Petition, are that the petitioner, Sangappa V. Hadapad Security Agency, is owned by one Lt. Col. Sangappa and is empanelled with the Directorate General Resettlement (hereinafter called as DGR), bearing Empane...