AJAY CHANDRA DHAR Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) MR . Ajay Chandra Dhar, the petitioner -appellant, filed a writ petition challenging the order, declining his selection/appointment as Deputy Collector in Bihar Administrative Service. The main ground urged by the petitioner is that he fulfilled all the qualification as well as requirements for promotion and posting as Deputy Collector and that despite recommendation of his name by the competent authority, for the selection, he was not selected.

(2.) THE writ petition was ultimately dismissed on 16.11.2005 by the order of the learned Single Judge mainly on the reason that he obtained only 25 marks whereas the other man, above him, who has been selected, secured 291/2 marks and as such, he obtained below the cut off marks and therefore, there is no merit in the writ petition.

(3.) THE short facts, which are relevant for disposal of this appeal, are as follows: