New Delhi, July 31: The Supreme Court said it would hear today an application filed by DMK MP C Kuppuswamy accusing the Tamil Nadu government of not reinstating over 31,000 government employees in gross violation of its undertaking before the court.
The hearing date was fixed by a bench comprising Justice M B Shah and Justice AR Lakshmanan after the application was mentioned before it by senior advocate T R Andhyarujina.
Kuppuswamy pointed out that the Jayalalithaa government gave solemn assurance to the court on July 24 that it would not reinstate nearly 2200 employees, against whom FIRs have been lodged for indulging in violence during the agitation period.
However, when the employees went to join duty on July 25, around 31,000 of them were not taken back on the ground that FIRs were pending against them.
Acceeding to a suggestion of the court, the state government had agreed to take back from July 25 all the 1.76 lakh government employees dismissed for striking work except those booked for indulging in violence and aiding and abetting the state-wide agitation.



The court had made it clear that each employee before being reinstated would have to give an undertaking to abide by the Rule 22 of the Tamil Nadu government employees conduct rules which stated that "no government employee shall engage himself in strike or similar activities...".


Bureau Report