Mumbai: There are no legal rights for public holidays, said the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, therefore refused to direct the Dadra & Nagar Haveleli & Nagar Haveli (D & NH) region to declare August 2 National Holidays while obtaining liberation / independence from the government Portuguese on that date.
“What are your legal rights for national holidays?” Asked by the Gautam Patel and Madhav Jamdar justice at the petition by Silvassa Resident Kishnabhai Ghutia (51) and Aadivation Navjeevan Jangal Andolan.
Challenging Petition Notification October 2021 about National Holidays not including August 2, 2022 as the date of “Liberation / Independence Day” from D & NH.
Ghutia petition said that from August 2, 1954 to 2 August 2020 that day was celebrated as a public holiday for D & NH to be part of the Indian region.
But there was no justification given not to tell August 2, 2022 as a public holiday.
It was questioned if the government could celebrate August 15 and January 26 as a public holiday but eliminate people D & NH “to celebrate their liberation / independence day” on August 2.
August 2.
Advocate Ghutia Bhavesh Parmar refers to April 15, 2019 Where HC directs the administrator D & NH to Gazette Good Friday as a public holiday.
“If it can be done for great Friday, then why not for the day of Liberation Dadra & Nagar Haveli? ‘”Parmar asked.
In their order, the judges said the april 2019 HC command was on a different footing.” The pill is for Melati’s failure, i.e.
For compulsory Good Friday as a public holiday.
It was far from the current WRIT petition which was looking for a declaration of August 2 as a national holiday.
“They added,” Like that, we have too many vacations.
Maybe time has come to reduce them …
no one has fundamental rights for national holidays.
“Parmar shows that August 2 as a public holiday is stopped after 2020.” Will declare a public holiday or an optional vacation is a policy problem.
There are no rights that can be legally enforced for it, “said the judges.
There are no legal rights for national holidays: Bombay HC
