KAILASH RAJAK Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for direction on the respondents to consider him for regular promotion to the vacant post of District Mining Officer from the post of Assistant Mining Officer and also for further promotion and to grant all consequential benefits.

(2.) IT has been stated that the petitioner has been holding the post of Assistant Mining Officer since July 1984. He has also been discharging the duty of In -charge District Mining Officer since December, 1990. The petitioner has all the required eligibilities and qualification for promotion to the post of District Mining Officer. The petitioner, thus, represented before the departmental authority for consideration of his promotion to the post of District Mining Officer.

(3.) LEARNED counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that the petitioner's claim has been maliciously opposed in this writ petition without taking into consideration the recommendations of Departmental Promotion Committee which is the competent body and also the higher authorities of the department. Frivolous pleas have been taken in the counter affidavit only for objection sake.