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Pay up or face contempt charges
By Sachitra Mahendra
The Supreme Court has ordered the Science and Technology Minister to settle the compensation payments of former employees of the Council for Information Technology (CINTEC), which comes under his purview, before the end of this month or face possible charges for contempt of court.

The Supreme Court has notified the minister that in the event of his failure to supervise the necessary payments before the end of this month, the lawyers are capable of instituting legal proceedings for contempt of the Supreme Court.

Sources at CINTEC said that only non-petitioners had been paid the compensation, while 18 petitioners have to be paid an amount totalling Rs. 6.9 m. CINTEC, a premier government institute for information technology, no longer exists as all its physical resources have been transferred to the Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), which comes under the purview of the Prime Minister. The Supreme Court has ordered the minister to wind up the CINTEC official structure by paying salary arrears and the necessary compensation.

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