JAGDISH PRASAD GUPTA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Writ Petition filed by the petitioner to set aside the order dated 4. 2. 1997 and allow him to continue to work in the Transport Department with all consequential benefits.

(2.) BY the order dated, 4. 2. 97, the petitioner was transferred back to the Department of Agriculture from where he was relieved way back in the year 1986. The said order is annexed and marked as Annexure-6.

(3.) THE reply was filed on behalf of the respondents. It is submitted by the respondents that the petitioner's lien continued to be in the Agriculture Department, his seniority was also shown in the Agriculture Department and that the petitioner's seniority has never been shown in the Transport Department. As far as the seniority of LDCs is concerned, it is submitted that none of the persons who had been transferred on 20. 1. 86 has been included in the seniority list of LDCs in the Transport Department and such persons continued to be shown in the seniority list of LDCs in their parent departments. It is further submitted that because the petitioner had been working in the Transport Department for 11 years, does not entitle him to have his lien transferred from Agriculture Department to the Transport Department. It is also submitted that the Agriculture Department has not been impleaded as party respondent.