UMAKANT CHAKRAVARTY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND : FOOD COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF FOOD, CIVIL SUPPLIES, BIHAR, PATNA : ANAND MOHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) PETITIONER , in this writ application, has prayed for a direction upon the Respondents to pay him the pay -scale of the District Supply Officer on which post he had retired from service on 31.01.1998. The contention of the petitioner is that he was promoted to the post of District Supply Officer on 17.12.1996, and as such, he is entitled to the pay -scale fixed for the post of District Supply Officer, since the date of his joining the promoted post.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the Respondent -State of Bihar would want to explain that the petitioner's claim that he was promoted to the pot of the District Supply Officer appears to be misconceived. As a matter of fact, though the petitioner was asked to officiate on the post of the District Supply Officer but he was not promoted to the aforesaid post. Vide Annexure -1, upon which the petitioner has based his claim, the petitioner has been asked to officiate the higher post on his existing pay -scale, till further orders.