VIJAY SHANKAR PRASAD Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha, learned senior counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Manoj Tandon, learned counsel for the Respondent -State, Mrs. Malti Chaurasia, learned counsel for the Respondent Nos. 7 to 13, Mrs. Vandana Bharati, learned counsel for the Respondent Nos. 11 & 16 and Mr. Amaresh Kumar, learned counsel for the Respondent Nos. 9, 12, 16 and 17.

(2.) PETITIONERS , in this writ application, have prayed for issuance of a writ of mandamus commanding upon the Respondents to appoint the petitioners in Class III posts, considering the fact that the petitioners are retrenched employees of 1991 census and they are purportedly senior in the panel of the 1991 census employees. Though a further prayer has been made for quashing of letters of appointment, dated - 3110.2006, 01.12.2006 and 10.10.2006 as contained in Annexures -13, 13/1 and 13/2 of the writ application by which the Respondent Nos. 7 to 18 have been appointed on Class III posts but this relief has not been pressed at the time of hearing on behalf of the petitioners.

(3.) THE grievance of the petitioners is that though they possessed the requisite qualifications for their appointment on Class III posts and though their names appeared in the panel above the names of the private Respondent Nos. 7 to 18, the petitioners have been arbitrarily denied the offer for Class III posts while granting such benefits to the Respondent Nos. 7 to 18.