Supreme Court vacated order

The Supreme Court on Sunday vacated its 10-day-old stay order against the government's order to the Moondrops Overseas not to send workers to South Korea.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel and Tahir Ali Ansari issued the order to vacate previous SC stay order, issued on June 1 by a single bench of Judge Pawan Kumar Ojha, that had allowed the company to send workers to South Korea.The court on Sunday said there is no need to continue the stay order issued by the single bench on June 1 because the issue is to be settled by the court while delivering a final decision on the case.
The government, as per the Clause 20 of the Foreign Employment Act 1992, had simply ordered the manpower agency not to send workers to South Korea and therefore the issue would be decided in final decision of the case, the bench said.

Sunday's decision prevents the Moondrops Overseas Company to send 695 trainee workers selected recently and the 167 workers who were selected in 2004 to South Korea.

The government had ordered the company not to send the workers to South Korea after it refused to follow the government direction to send 10 per cent workers selected by the government.