CENTRAL COALFIELDS LTD Vs. TRIBENI PRASAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BOTH the aforementioned two Letters Patent Appeals are taken up together, but for convenience, we will deal with L.P.A. No. 541 of 1999(R) first. This letters patent appeal is directed against the judgment dated 1.11.1999 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 2228 of 1998(R) by a learned Single Judge of this Court, by which the writ petition filed by the respondent Shri Tribeni Prasad was allowed.

(2.) IN the writ petition, the respondent herein had prayed for a direction upon the respondents for quashing the communication of "Inadequate" ratings for the periods 1994 -95, 1995 -96 and 1996 - 1997 which were communicated by confidential letter Nos. 2724 dated 08.08.1997, 2708 dated 29.07.1997 and 3114 dated 17.10.1997 as contained in Annexure 1, 1/a and 1/b therein. By reason of Annexure 1, the respondent was informed that his overall grading for the period April 1994 October 1994 and 27.10.1994 to 31.03.1995 was "Inadequate". Similary, by Annexure 1/a, the respondent was informed that his overall grading for the period 1995 -96 was "Inadequate". By reason of the third impugned communication, the respondent was again informed that his overall grading for the period 1996 -97 was also "Inadequate".

(3.) THE case of the respondent as built up in the writ petition was that being in the Personnel Department of Coal India Limited, he earned the wrath of the appellants in the matter relating to genuine redressal of grievances of its workmen. He made a grievance that earlier also he had been superseded by his juniors and his genuine medical reimbursement to the tune of Rs. 6,000.00 or more was withheld and he was frequently transferred from one area to another. Being aggrieved by these actions he had filed C.W.J.C. No. 2748 of 1994(R) which is the subject matter of L.P.A. No. 459 of 2001.