: Centre agrees to reinstate NCLAT chairperson after controversy on his retirement date #IndiaNEWS The Centre on Thursday agreed to reinstate Justice Ashok Iqbal Cheema as the acting chairperson of the

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Centre agrees to reinstate NCLAT chairperson after controversy on his retirement date #IndiaNEWS
The Centre on Thursday agreed to reinstate Justice Ashok Iqbal Cheema as the acting chairperson of the National Company Law Tribunal till September 20, Live Law reported.Attorney General KK Venugopal made the submission to the Supreme Court, which was hearing a plea filed by Cheema challenging an order from the Centre that terminated his services on September 10. This was 10 days before the date on which he was supposed to retire.Cheema had been appointed as a member of the National Company Law Tribunal on September 11, 2017, therefore his tenure came to an end on September 10, 2021.In his plea, Cheema submitted that he had taken a leave from August 31 to September 10 to write pending judgements as he had assumed that he would retire on September 20. However, on September 10, he was told by the Centre that his tenure of four years at the National Company Law Tribunal had ended.Cheema argued that his appointment order to the tribunal mentioned his retirement date as September 20, when he turns 67.During Thursday’s hearing, Venugopal initially argued that the Centre will allow Cheema to continue in office “on paper� till September 20 and that the chairperson will receive retirement benefits, Bar and Bench reported.He cited that Section 5 of the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021...Read more

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