SANDEEP BAKSHI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE prayer in the writ petition is to command the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for promotion from Junior Selection Grade to Senior Selection Grade in the rank of Additional District Magistrate and grant all consequential benefits.

(3.) THE reason for the petitioner to come before this Court with the said prayer is that the Departmental Promotion Committee in its meeting held on 4th June, 2013 chose to keep the case of the petitioner pending in view of an inquiry in relation to his Scheduled Tribe status and keep post vacant. The controversy raised herein now is basically in relation to the status of the petitioner as Scheduled Tribe person. The petitioner's mother, a Tribal lady, Smt. Shanti Bakshi, daughter of Late Sri A.L.Minz, married a Forward Caste (Kaystha) person Sri A.P.Bakshi (now deceased) in the year 1956. The certificate of Scheduled Tribe was issued by the Ranchi Collectorate on 17th May, 1993 under the signature of Deputy Commissioner, Ranchi, to the petitioner on the basis of a judgment rendered in CWJC No. 3357 of 1992(R) in the case of the petitioner himself seeking issuance of such certificate. The Scheduled Tribe Certificate is at Annexure -2 and the judgment as aforesaid is at Annexure -1 and is being quoted hereunder: