PRITHIVI NATH RAM Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE present writ petition has been filed for issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction, commanding upon the respondents to give promotion to the petitioner to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police with retrospective effect from 1.2.1993 with all consequential benefits on the ground that the petitioner is holding the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ranchi Traffic with effect from 22nd of August, 2005.

(2.) THE facts in brief are summarized as under;

(3.) ACCORDING to the petitioner, his name was again recommended for out -of -turn promotion in 1995 but it was again turned down vide order dated 22.11.1996 by the competent authority which, according to the petitioner, is illegal and arbitrary and violative of Rule 660C of the Bihar Police Manual. The petitioner has cited an example stating that out -of -turn promotion was granted to one Raj Kumar Yadav.