DURGA DEVI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the parties. In this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for a direction to the respondents to allow them to continue as Anganbari Sevikas, since they were appointed after being selected in the Aam Sabha held for that purpose.

(2.) THE grievance of the petitioners is that their appointment has wrongly and illegally been cancelled by the Deputy Commissioner on flimsy ground and further that the respondent nos. 7 and 8 have wrongly and illegally been appointed in their place. According to the petitioners, in the meeting of Aam Sabha, they were duly selected and thereafter they were appointed and, therefore, their appointment could not have been cancelled by the Deputy Commissioner. According to the petitioners, after their appointment, they were also sent for training.

(3.) IN the second counter affidavit filed by the respondent no. 2 sworn by one Ranjit Prasad Saw, said to be the Project Officer, Meso Area -cum -District Programme Welfare Officer, Jamtara and in paragraph no. 6 it has been stated that the grievance of the petitioners was looked upon and enquired and it was found that no such irregularity was committed by the C.D.P.O. while appointing the petitioners namely Durga Devi.