ANUJ KUMAR ROY Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ORDER Anuj Kumar Roy is an advocate. It is stated that his father was driver with the North Frontier Railway. He died on 2.8.1999. After the death of his father Anuj Kumar Roy thought it would be better to leave the legal profession and apply for a job on compassionate appointment with the Indian Railways. The Railway administration was not averse to considering his application and in accordance with the regulations tested him and in accordance with the test did provide him with an employment as a junior clerk on 9.1.2000. Not satisfied the newly recruited Anuj Kumar Roy engaged the Railway administration in a controversy that he had not been given a job commensurate with his qualifications. The Railways did not hesitate to take up a defence before the Central Administrative Tribunal that notwithstanding the qualification, which he possessed as a Graduate, a Law Graduate or a lawyer, the efficiency shown in the test barely passed him and was quite inconsistent with the higher qualification possessed by him.

(2.) ANUJ Kumar Roy is lucky that the railway administration did not chase up this matter to its logical conclusion to find out whether this person who did not have efficiency to match his qualification did have the qualification at all ? This Court leaves this question unanswered.

(3.) ANUJ Kumar Roy apparently has not seen troubled times nor upheavel in a State in which there is rampant unemployment. One can hardly dictate terms to a person who provides a job and more so a government job and that also a Central Government job. There is no compulsion with Anuj Kumar Roy to retain the job which the Railways has provided, if he desires to revert to the legal profession he may. Dismissed.