IGNATIOUS MURMU Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND : SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS, JHARKHAND, RANCHI : PUSPA MARANDI, JOINT SECRETARY : GOURI SHANKAR MINZ, D.D.C., GIRIDIH : UPENDRA NARAYAN ORAOWN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner, submits at the outset that during the pendency of this writ application, the petitioner had retired from service and consequently, the respondent nos. 3 to 5 are no more necessary parties and therefore, the petitioner would prefer to delete the names of the respondent nos. 3 to 5 from the cause title of the writ application. In the light of the submissions, the names of respondents 3 to 5 are deleted from the cause title of the writ application. Heard Shri Kalyan Roy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Manoj Tondon, learned counsel for the respondent State.

(2.) PETITIONER 's prayer in this writ application, is for issuing a direction to the respondents to promote him to the post of Deputy Commissioner from the date from which the private respondents, who were junior to him in the gradation list, were promoted.

(3.) COUNSEL for the respondents, while inviting attention to the specific paragraphs of the counter -affidavit, would submit that the petitioner need not to have any grievance in view of the fact that having considered his case, the respondents have already granted him the benefit of ACP and sanction for payment of the monetary benefits, has already been issued by the competent authorities.