SRIBATSA KUMAR MAHAPTARA Vs. STATE OF ORISSA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These are two sets of the writ petitions, out of which first five writ petitions have been filed against the judgment and order dated March 18, 2005 and last two writ petitions have been filed against different common judgment and order dated March 3, 2005. Both the orders and judgments have been passed by the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack respectively in different original applications.

(2.) Since in all these cases, the impugned orders are based on interpretation of "teaching experience" as defined in 3(k) of the Orissa Medical Education Service (Recruitment) Rules 1979 (hereinafter referred to as "the Rules, 1979" ),they are being disposed of by this common judgment.

(3.) In first set of the writ petitions containing five cases, O.A. No. 2052 (C) of 2001 was filed by the private opposite parties of the writ petition, W.P.(C) No.4670 of 2005, namely, Dr. Sarojkanta Sahoo, Dr. K.C. Mohapatra, Dr. Braja Mohan Mishra, Dr. Y. Tej Kumar and Dr. Jagadananda Mishra with a prayer to quash the order dated December 18, 1998 giving promotion to the petitioner with effect from September 18, 1992 and taking him into the zone of consideration which was allowed by the Tribunal. O.A. No. 1712 of 2002 was filed by Dr. S.K. Das, opposite party in W.P. (C)No.4671 of 2005 to quash the order dated July 2, 2002 and O.A. No. 1450 (C)of 2004 was filed by Dr. P.K. Rath opposite party in W.P.(C) No. 4672 of 2005 to quash the recommendation of D.P.C. in favour of the writ petitioner Dr. S.K. Mohapatra and O.A. No. 2388(C) of 2001 was filed by Dr. P.K. Rath, opposite party in W.P.(C) No. 4673 of 2005 to consider his case for promotion to the post of Associate Professor and other relief and O.A. No. 2522 of 2003 was filed by the opposite parties in W.P. (C) No. 4674 of 2005, namely, Dr.Braja Mohan Mishra, Dr.Y. Tej Kumar and Dr. S.K. Sahoo challenging the seniority and promotion of the petitioner for the post of Asst. Professor as well as professor.