L RAJENDRO SINGH v. STATE OF MANIPUR AND ANR
Court: High Court of Manipur
Bench: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE A.GUNESHWAR SHARMA
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Case summary
High Court of Manipur judgment dated 2024-08-21. L RAJENDRO SINGH v. STATE OF MANIPUR AND ANR. Read the judgment and case details on LawSphereX.
Judgment text
4-5 IN THE HIGH COURT OF MANIPUR AT IMPHAL WP(C)No. 581 of 2024 with MC (WP(C)) No. 481 of 2024 L. Rajendro Singh … Petitioner -Versus- State of Manipur & Anr … Respondents BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE A. GUNESHWAR SHARMA 21. 08. 2024 Heard Ms. Babita, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. S. Nepolean, learned Government Advocate for the State respondents. The petitioner, who is a Deputy Director in Tribal Affairs & Hills Department, Government of Manipur is retiring on 30. 11. 2024. It is submitted that the post of Joint Director in TA Hills & SC Department is feeder post as Deputy Director and out of six, petitioner is the only serving Deputy Director as five of them have already retired on superannuation. It is also submitted that the petitioner has the requisite qualification for promotion to the post of Joint Director. In this regard, petitioner also submitted representation dated 2. 2.
2024 to the Director, TA & Hills for processing promotion to the post of Joint Director on regular basis. It is stated that no action is contemplated in this regard and the petitioner will be retiring within a few months. Ms. Babita, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the writ petition may be disposed of by directing the respondent No. 2 to consider the representation made on 2. 2. 2024 by the petitioner, within a stipulated period, before his retirement. Mr. S. Nepolean, learned Government Advocate has no objection in issuing direction for disposing the representation dated 2. 2. 2024 submitted by the petitioner. Recording this, the writ petition is disposed of directing the State respondents to initiate consideration of the representation dated 22. 2. 2024 within a period of two months, by passing a speaking order, from the date of receipt of this order. It is made clear that this Court does not express any opinion on the merit of the case.
Furnish a copy of this order to learned counsel for the parties. With this observation, the writ petition is disposed of. Misc case also stands disposed of. JUDGE Priyojit Digitally signed by RAJKUMAR RAJKUMAR PRIYOJIT PRIYOJIT SINGH Date: 2024. 08. 23 SINGH 10:03:09 +05'30'
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