AJI RAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Aggrieved of the denial of benefits of selection scale on completion of 27 years of service and arrears of pay with interest as claimed by a notice dated 3rd October, 2013, served through counsel; the petitioner has instituted the present writ application praying for the following relief(s): - -

(2.) Briefly, the skeletal material facts essential for adjudication of the controversy raised herein needs to be first noticed. The petitioner, who entered in service with the State -respondents as 'Patwari' on 2nd November, 1979, was prosecuted for offence under Sec. 7, 13(1)(d) read with Sec. 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; in view of the FIR registered on 24th June, 1999. He was placed under suspension on 5th July, 1999. On his acquittal by the Court of Special Judge (Prevention of Corruption Act), Kota, vide judgment and order dated 27th September, 2001; the order of suspension was revoked on 15th February, 2002. Since the service benefits were not accorded to the petitioner; for the period in integram, he instituted S.B. Civil Writ Petition Number 9762/2012 (Aji Ram v/s. State of Rajasthan & Ors.), decided on 9th July, 2012, observing thus: - -

(3.) Learned counsel for the petitioner reiterating the pleaded facts and grounds of the writ application, submits that as a consequence of the order dated 9th July, 2012, the benefits of selection scale after completion of 9 and 18 years of service have been released in favour of the petitioner, but the benefits of selection scale on completion of 27 years of service have been denied on the pretext that the recommendations of the Departmental Promotion Committee have been kept in sealed cover for the judgment and order of acquittal dated 27th September, 2001, is under appeal.