Akku-Leela case: SC disposes contempt petition

Akku-Leela case: SC disposes contempt petition

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, July 19, 2014:  In a new development in the Akku-Leela case which had attracted much attention, the Supreme Court has disposed the contempt petition  filed   against the Karnataka Government, after the  Government  recently issued an order  regularising the services of the two women from the dates  of joining service till they retired. The government had also ordered payment of all pending monetary and pension benefits to the two women.

This comes after the Supreme Court had on July 4 given a final warning to comply with its orders. The two women had served the Government Women Teachers’ Training Institute at Udupi for as long as 42 years for a meagre  pay package of Rs 15 per month since 1971. If Akku was a sweeper  after the death of  her mother, even  Leela had joined as a sweeper.

The State Government had initially paid Rs 2.11 lakh in December 2013 and Rs 3.68 lakh in January  this year.

Ravindranath Shanbhag, President of the Human Rights Protection Foundation of Udupi had fought for the cause of the two oppressed women.