COIMBATORE: Court staffers in Coimbatore confiscated a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus after the TNSTC failed to disburse Rs 16 lakh in benefits due to a conductor.G John Kennedy, 56, joined the TNSTC Coimbatore division as a conductor in 1998. He was verbally terminated in 1999.Following his appeal, Madras high court ordered his reinstatement in 2000, though his service was regularised only in 2003. Seeking monetary benefits for the interim period between 2000 and 2003, Kennedy reapproached the court. Despite explicit high court orders directing the transport corporation to settle the Rs 16 lakh dues, it delayed payment.Kennedy subsequently filed an execution petition before the principal labour court in Coimbatore. Taking a stern view of the non-compliance, the judge ordered the seizure of a public transport vehicle.On Monday, court staffers intercepted a TNSTC bus operating on the Coimbatore–Mettupalayam route and seized it. The bus is now parked on the court premises here.
