SHAFIQ AHMAD Vs. STATE GOVERNMENT OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD counsel for the parties and perused the record.

(2.) THE petitioners claim to have been working on the post of Collection Peons in Tehsil Kairana, District Muzaffarnagar on 31.7.1996 and they were interviewed for the post of Collection Amin. THEreafter they were promoted on the said post on 5.8.1996. THEy have been reverted to the post of Collection Peons vide order dated 2.6.2007, passed by the District Magistrate, Muzaffarnagar. THE petitioners filed representation/ objection before the District Magistrate for reconsideration of the impugned reversion order dated 2.6.2007 but to no avail, hence the instant writ petition has been filed for quashing the impugned order dated 2.6.2007, passed by respondent No. 3.

(3.) PURSUANT to the aforesaid order dated 20.12.2006 of the High Court, by letter dated 8.4.2007 both the petitioners were directed to appear alongwith their educational certificates before the District Magistrate, Muzaffarnagar. The District Magistrate has found that the Prathma Pariksha examination is not equivalent to an examination recognized by the State of U. P., for appointment in Government service as such he has rejected the claim of Sri Rakesh Kumar and Sri Shafiq Ahmad, Collection Amins of Tehsil Kairana, Muzaffarnagar and has reverted them to their original post of Collection Peons.