STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. THAKUR AJIT KUMAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Prabhat Kumar Sinha, learned counsel for the petitioner and J.C. to A.G. on behalf of the respondent -State.

(2.) THE petitioner in this writ application has prayed for directing the respondents to grant him the first time bound promotion with effect from 19.4.1981 i.e. the date when the petitioner had completed 10 years of his continuous service and also to grant him benefits of the second Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP) since 9.8.1999 i. e. the date when it fell due. A further prayer has been made for directing the respondents to grant promotion to the petitioner to the post of Head Clerk with effect from 31.7.1983 i.e. the date on which the permanent post of Head Cierk fell vacant after the retirement of the previous incumbent and the petitioner was given charge of the same on account of his being seniormost permanent clerk in the department.

(3.) A counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondents. Referring to the contents of para 19 of the counter affidavit, learned counsel for the respondents submits that the matter relating to the grant of second A.C. P. and the consequential benefits thereof, including revision of pension etc. of the petitioner, is under active consideration of the concerned department. In para 8 of the counter affidavit, which is in reply to the petitioner's claim that the pay scale of Head Clerk was not given to him even though he was made to work on the said post for 18 years as Incharge Head Clerk, the stand of the respondents is that such claim of the State Of Jharkhand Through Director General Of Police Versus Thakur Ajit Kumar petitioner is not worth consideration as because it is common practice that in view to impart training at job, juniors are given opportunity to work as Incharge of the higher post.