ANURAG RAVI KUJUR Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present writ application was filed by the petitioners, initially, with a prayer to promote them from the post of Assistant (Grade- Pay of Rs.4600.00) to the post of Sec. Officer (Grade-Pay of Rs.4800.00). Prayer was further amended to the effect that this promotion may be granted with effect from the year 2015, on completion of

(2.) years of Kalawadhi on the post of Assistant, bearing Grade-Pay of Rs.4600.00. 2. The promotion on completion of 2 years in the Grade-Pay of Rs.4800.00 was prayed in pursuance to the Government Resolution dtd. 4/4/2014 (Annexure-6 to the writ application) and provision contained therein at paragraph no. (ii) in the table at serial no.12 which prescribes a Kalawadhi of 2 years for promotion from the Grade-Pay of Rs.4600.00 to Grade-Pay of Rs.4800.00.

(3.) During pendency of the instant writ application, the respondents granted promotion to the petitioners vide notification dtd. 29/7/2022 (Annexure-4 to amended writ application). This order was challenged in an interlocutory application being I.A. No. 3757 of 2024 praying for amendment in prayer portion and pleadings of the writ petition, seeking permission to challenge limited portion of Notification of promotion dtd. 29/7/2022 so as to make the promotion effective from the year 2015, more specifically two years from the date on which the petitioners were appointed as Assistant in the Grade-Pay of Rs.4600.00. The aforesaid interlocutory application was disposed of vide order dtd. 25/4/2024, pursuant to which the amended writ was filed and thereafter two counter-affidavits have been filed by the respondent-Department of Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Rajbhasha. In pursuance to the above prayers, it is clear that the petitioners now are contesting for shift in the date of promotion from 29/7/2022 to the year 2015, i.e. 2 years after the date of appointment in the Grade-Pay of Rs.4600.00 on the post of Assistant.