SANTOSH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present writ petition has been filed for quashing the letter dated 27th June, 2019 (Annexure-8 to the writ petition) issued by the Secretary, Jharkhand Academic Council, Ranchi- respondent no.3, informing that the petitioners' registrations were cancelled earlier by the concerned college. Further prayer has been made for issuance of direction upon the respondent no.2 to forthwith publish the result of the petitioners and issue primary teachers training certificates in their favour.

(2.) The case of the petitioners is that the respondent no.1 issued an advertisement in the year 2010 inviting applications for admission in two years Teachers Training Course i.e. 2010-12. The petitioners applied for the said course, however, as per their averments, they did not submit their NCC certificates. All the documents/certificates submitted by them were self-attested, however, NCC certificates, which are claimed to have been submitted by the petitioners, were not self-attested. The petitioners were selected for the said course and were called to get themselves registered. The petitioners took admission in Government Primary Teachers Training College, Bundu and on completion of their training course, they appeared in the Teachers Training Examination, which was held from 10th to 14th December, 2012. The petitioners were declared successful in the said examination, result of which was published in the month of February, 2013, however, the mark-sheets were not given to several persons including the petitioners. It is further submitted that despite several requests made by the petitioners, none of the authorities took any action in this regard and finally vide impugned letter dated 27 th June, 2019, the respondent no.3 informed the petitioners that their registrations were cancelled in view of the letters dated 18th December, 2012 and 19th December, 2012 issued by the Principal, Government Primary Teachers Training College, Bundu.

(3.) A counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondent nos.2 and 3 bringing on record the copy of letter no.322 dated 19th December, 2012, whereby the respondent no.3 was requested not to issue certificates to the petitioners putting remarks in the said letter that their candidature/selection in the said training course had been cancelled in view of the fact that the certificates of the candidates had not been found genuine after verification. The said letter dated 19th December, 2012 issued by the respondent no.4 contains the names of eight candidates, namely, Manjit Kumar Singh, Gurupad Yadav, Ramapati Pramanik (petitioner no.2), Santosh Kumar (petitionerno.1), Albert Horo, Sanjay Munda, Pratap Singh Munda and Ajit Singh Munda. So far as Albert Horo, Gurupad Yadav, Manjeet Kumar Singh and Sanjay Munda are concerned, they moved this Court by preferring a writ petition being W.P.(C) no.1205 of 2015, which was dismissed by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 5th December, 2016, a copy of which has been annexed as Annexure-B to the counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondent nos.2 and 3. The relevant part of the said order dated 5th December, 2016 reads as under:-