LAWS(CAL)-1988-5-32

AMITAVA ROY Vs. UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Decided On May 17, 1988
AMITAVA ROY Appellant
V/S
Union of India And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is an application made by the applicant under S. 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.

(2.) Shri Amitava Roy had been holding a temporal post in the Office of the Director of Census Operations, West Bengal, and that temporary post itself was transferred to the Language Division. There is, therefore, no question of his having any lien on any post in the Office of the Director of Census Operations, West Bengal, nor can be claim any seniority amongst the staff of that Office, as that Office was a separate identity than the Language Division of the Once of Assistant Registrar General, Calcutta.

(3.) It was mainly for the considerations referred to above that the representation of Shri Amitava Roy was rejected." On 21.1.76 (Annexure -I), the RGI rejected a further representation made by the applicant and reiterated his Order made on 20.3.1975. As late as an 18.6.1986, the applicant made a representation for reconsideration or reopening of the Orders made by the RGI on 20.3.1975 and 21.1.1976, which he again rejected the same reiterating what had been decided by him earlier. What emerges from these is that the grievance of the applicant, if any, for appointment in the Census Department or the Department of the RGI was finally decided by the Registrar General on 20.3.75. In the later Orders made from time to time, the RGI had only reiterated the same. Whether a decision or a grievance that had arisen befog 1.11.82 can at all be taken cognizance of by this Tribunal or not is now well settled. In Mehra's Cases, a Division Bench of the Principal Bench speaking through Mr. Justice Madhava Remedy, Hon'ble Chairman examined this very question and expressed thus -