BALRAM PRASAD SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this writ application the petitioner has prayed for quashing the order dated 16.5.2002 passed by respondent No. 2, Secretary, Secondary Education, Human Resources Department, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi whereby the request of the petitioner for making payment of his salary from May, 1998 onwards has been rejected and further a direction has been issued to the Director, Secondary Education to initiate a proposal for termination of the services of the petitioner.

(2.) PETITIONER 'scase is that he is B.Sc. in Silk Technology. In response to the advertisement the petitioner applied and was appointed as Laboratory Assistant, and posted at S.S. High School, Kuru, Ranchi. The petitioner submitted his joining on 21.7.1993. The Director, Secondary Education, vide letter dated 9.12.1993 confirmed the appointment of the petitioner as Lab Assistant, Sericulture. It is contended by the petitioner that he has regularly been paid salary but all of a sudden his salary was stopped from April, 1998. It is stated that the petitioner moved this Court by filing CWJC No. 383/2001 for a direction to the respondents for payment of salary. The writ application was disposed of on 25.1.2001 directing the District Education Officer to consider the case of the petitioner and pass order for payment of salary. In compliance of the said order the request of the petitioner for payment of salary has been rejected by the impugned order.

(3.) THIS matter was heard on 3.1.2003 and this Court passed the following order :