DINESH PRASAD GUPTA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents.

(2.) Petitioner confines his prayer with respect to quashing of letter No. 3017 dated 17.07.2017 (Annexure-7) issued by the Agriculture Director, Govt, of Jharkhand, Ranchi, whereby the Block Development Officer, Gamharia is directed to calculate all the increments except the first increment after his appointment till 15.06.2017 without cumulative effect and recovery of the same from him. Further prayer has also been made for payment of entire increments and arrears of salary which were stopped pursuant to letter bearing memo No. 941 dated 21.12015 (Annexure-2).

(3.) The facts of the case lies in a narrow compass. The petitioner was appointed as Block Agriculture Officer on 17.01988 and posted at Shikari Para Block, Dumka. Thereafter, he was transferred to several Blocks of the State and finally, he was transferred to Gamharia Block in March, 2014 where he is working on the same post. It is the further case of the petitioner that he passed the local Santhali language exam in the year 1990 and also passed the Hindi Noting and Drafting Examination held in the year 1991. But he has not passed the departmental examination because in his entire service career the government has conducted examinations only in the years 2005 and 2007. In the year 2005, he came to know about the same after due date and in the year 2007, though the petitioner has also filled-up the form for appearing in the departmental examination but he was not allowed by the then Block Development Officer to leave the headquarter as he was deputed in the election work and as such, he was not able to appear in the said examination and more so the government has also not conducted the department examination for Agriculture Subordinate Services.