SHANKAR PRASAD SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner has approached this Court for the following reliefs :-

(2.) The brief fact of the case is that the petitioner has been appointed after being successful in the combined competitive examination conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission in the 31st batch and he was given Bihar Administrative Service.

(3.) A seniority list was published in which the petitioner stands at serial no.419/2003. The petitioner being eligible to be considered for promotion to the junior selection grade w.e.f. 6.5.2005, the date from which the other juniors have been granted promotion. A Departmental Promotion Committee convened its meeting on 1.12.2004 and on one pretext or the other the case of the petitioner was not sent for its consideration before the said meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee. The case of the petitioner has been considered in the meeting of departmental promotion committee held on 31.08.2009 and the decision was taken to keep the promotion of the petitioner in the sealed cover on the ground of pendency of criminal case instituted in the year 1997.