The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed an order of Central Administrative Tribunal, CAT quashing appointments of 25 anchors and reporters in Doordarshan News channel and sought responses from the Centre and public broadcaster Prasar Bharati on the issue.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notices to the Centre and Prasar Bharati and sought their replies by May 10, the next date of hearing. The court's order came on a batch of petitions filed by the anchors and the reporters whose appointments by the Prasar Bharti were annulled by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in September, last year.The CAT, in its order, had quashed the appointments of 25 news anchors and the reporters posted with the Delhi Doordarshan News, saying Prasar Bharati had committed “irregularities” in favouring some candidates including a daughter of a Union Minister.
News On AIR | March 7, 2011 6:42 PM
HC stays CAT’s order quashing appointments of anchors in DD