The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a person who was denied the job of a conservancy worker in the High Court because of 90% hearing difficulty. The court has held such denial to be against the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Act, 2016.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and K. Rajasekar allowed a writ petition filed by S. Amanullah in 2018 challenging his rejection by the selection committee and directed the Registrar General of the High Court to employ the petitioner as a conservancy worker within four weeks.
The judges agreed with the petitioner’s counsel C. Harsha Raj that there was no reason as to why his client could not be engaged as a conservancy worker in the High Court when he was already performing the same job of sanitary worker successfully in a private institution for several years.
