LAWS(ORI)-2012-5-34

SUBASH CHANDRA MISHRA Vs. STATE OF ORISSA

Decided On May 15, 2012
SUBASH CHANDRA MISHRA Appellant
V/S
STATE OF ORISSA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) TWO Full Bench decisions of this Court regarding eligibility for promotion/appointment to the post of Headmaster of a High School could not resolve the dispute and the controversy existed resulting in a reference made to the Special Bench and in the opening paragraph of the judgment, the Special Bench made the following observation: -

(2.) THE facts leading to filing of the batch of writ applications are as follows: -

(3.) WHILE the law laid down in the said Full Bench decision was holding the field again a reference was made to the Full Bench on the very same question in the case of Priti Ranjan Pradhan and others Vrs. State of Orissa and others, 1996 1 OrissaLR 145and the Full Bench in the said case, affirmed the conclusions arrived at by the earlier Full Bench in the case of Golakh Chandra Mohanty and observed in the concluding paragraph that the decision of the Full Bench of this Court in the case of Golakh Chandra Mohanty does not need reconsideration. The matter was again referred to a Special Bench in a batch of cases, the first case being of Priti Ranjan Pradhan. The Special Bench disposed of the batch of writ applications with the following conclusions: -