Give senior-most IAS officer post equivalent to chief secretary: CAT to #Punjab

GRANTING RELIEF to the senior-most Punjab IAS officer, Himmat Singh, who was aggrieved by the SAD-BJP government’s decision to give him a post much junior to his status, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Punjab government to appoint him within two weeks on a post equivalent to that of the state Chief Secretary. The tribunal expressed the posting order was "vitiated on account of arbitrary exercise of power and deserves to be quashed." The Chandigarh bench of the CAT, in its judgment released Wednesday, while coming down heavily on Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, said, "The order of equivalence has been issued without application of mind by the competent authority that directed the issue of the posting order i.e.