KUMARESH PRASAD SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard the parties.

(2.) Petitioner has approached this Court with a prayer for quashing the letter dated 09.08.2017 (Annexure-7) issued by respondent No. 4, whereby it has been informed to the petitioner that his request for acceptance of his joining against the post of Reader in Political Science in the service of the University has not been considered as the petitioner's leave with lien had expired on 14.04.2007. Petitioner has further prayed for a direction upon the respondent-University to allow him to join as Reader (now renamed as "Associate Professor"?) in Political Science with all consequential benefits in terms of the provisions contained under the Service Statutes as well as the provisions contained under the Jharkhand State Universities Act, 2000.

(3.) The factual exposition as has been delineated in the writ petition is that while the petitioner was working as Lecturer (Political Science) under Ranchi College, Ranchi, on recommendation made by the erstwhile University Selection Committee of the University, he was granted promotion to the post Reader (Political Science) w.e.f. 02.11.1986. During his posting as Reader, the erstwhile Bihar State University (Constituent Colleges) Service Commission, Patna invited applications from eligible candidates for consideration of their cases for appointment to the post of Registrar in different Universities within the State of Bihar and the petitioner, having fulfilled the requisite criteria, had applied for the said post. Thereafter, on the basis of his performance, his name was recommended for appointment against the post of Registrar in Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara and said fact was communicated to the petitioner by the University vide its letter dated 19.03.2002. In response to the said letter, petitioner applied for extra ordinary leave with lien without pay before the Ranchi University, Ranchi and vide notification dated 03.04.2002, the lien for a period of two years was granted to the petitioner for enabling the petitioner to join the post of Registrar under Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara (Bihar). After issuance of the said notification, the petitioner submitted his joining on 15.04.2002, which was duly accepted by the concerned authorities of the said University.