{"id":130027,"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhubneshwar-mandal-vs-bihar-state-electricity-board-on-23-july-2009"},"modified":"2017-11-21T01:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:11:37","slug":"bhubneshwar-mandal-vs-bihar-state-electricity-board-on-23-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhubneshwar-mandal-vs-bihar-state-electricity-board-on-23-july-2009","title":{"rendered":"Bhubneshwar Mandal vs Bihar State Electricity Board on 23 July, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bhubneshwar Mandal vs Bihar State Electricity Board on 23 July, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>         IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI\n                                W.P. (S) No. 2792 of 2003\n       Bhubneshwar Mandal ........................                                Petitioner.\n                                        Versus\n       Bihar State Electricity Board &amp; Ors ...............                    Respondents\n                                        ......\n       Coram:   Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amareshwar Sahay\n                                         ......\n       For the petitioner          : Mr. Indrajit Sinha, Advocate\n       For the J.S.E.B.            : Mr. A.K.Pandey, Advocate\n       For the B.S.E.B.            : Mr. Manoj Tondon, Advocate\n                                         ......\n\n6\/23.07.2009<\/pre>\n<p>        Heard the learned counsel for the Parties.\n<\/p>\n<p>                    The prayer of the petitioner, in this writ petition, is to<\/p>\n<p>       quash the order dated 12\/05\/2001, (Annexure-10), passed by the<\/p>\n<p>       Secretary, Bihar State Electricity Board alongwith that part of the<\/p>\n<p>       resolution\/order dated 16\/07\/2001 (Annexure-11), whereby the excess<\/p>\n<p>       amount of pay and other allowances drawn by the petitioner beyond<\/p>\n<p>       31\/01\/1991, has been ordered to be adjusted from the amount dues as<\/p>\n<p>       post retiral benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>                    According to the petitioner, at the time of entry in service<\/p>\n<p>       as Assistant Executive Engineer, he had submitted his matriculation<\/p>\n<p>       certificate showing his date of birth as 01\/02\/1941 but his date of<\/p>\n<p>       birth was wrongly recorded in his service book as 01\/01\/1958 in place<\/p>\n<p>       of 01\/02\/1941. This fact he came to know only when the gradation list<\/p>\n<p>       was prepared in the year 1994 and, thereafter, he, by his letter dated<\/p>\n<p>       16\/12\/1998, informed the Bihar State Electricity Board about the said<\/p>\n<p>       mistake and requested to correct the entry in his service book. When he<\/p>\n<p>       did not receive any response, then he sent another letter on<\/p>\n<p>       07\/01\/1999, reiterating the said mistake. He even served a letter dated<\/p>\n<p>       23\/03\/1999 personally, which was            duly received by them on<\/p>\n<p>       24\/03\/1999. According to the petitioner, instead of correcting the<\/p>\n<p>       wrong entry in the service book regarding his date of birth, the<\/p>\n<p>       respondents Board sent him a letter dated 07\/04\/2000 asking him to<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                      -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>send a photo copy of his matriculation certificate for verification of his<\/p>\n<p>date of birth. The petitioner sent a photo copy of the matriculation<\/p>\n<p>certificate under registered cover on 20\/05\/2000 to the Office of the<\/p>\n<p>Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. Thereafter, the petitioner was<\/p>\n<p>directed to meet the Secretary of the Board on 23\/05\/2000 with all his<\/p>\n<p>original certificates, which the petitioner complied and explained to him<\/p>\n<p>everything.    Thereafter,     the    petitioner    received   a   letter   dated<\/p>\n<p>27\/05\/2000 directing him not to work and, accordingly, the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>seized to work w.e.f. 27\/05\/2000. On 16\/07\/2000, the petitioner was<\/p>\n<p>served with a notice to show cause as to why departmental proceeding<\/p>\n<p>be not initiated against him on the ground that he concealed his correct<\/p>\n<p>date of birth. He should have superannuated on 31\/01\/1999 but he<\/p>\n<p>continued to work even since thereafter, which shows his ill motive and<\/p>\n<p>malafide intention. The petitioner submitted his show cause. When no<\/p>\n<p>final order was being passed by the authority concerned and the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner was not being paid his retiral dues, he filed a writ petition<\/p>\n<p>being W.P. (S) No. 3866\/2000 (R) for quashing of the show cause notice<\/p>\n<p>dated 28\/06\/2000. The said writ petition was disposed of by order as<\/p>\n<p>contained in Annexure-7 to this writ petition directing the respondents<\/p>\n<p>to decide the matter by speaking order within a period of two months<\/p>\n<p>and also to pay the admitted retiral dues to the petitioner. The<\/p>\n<p>petitioner, thereafter, sent a representation praying therein to drop the<\/p>\n<p>departmental proceeding, which was initiated after his retirement and<\/p>\n<p>to pay his retiral benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>              The   respondents       Board    by    an   office   order    dated<\/p>\n<p>12\/05\/2001, contained in Annexure-10 to this writ petition, finally<\/p>\n<p>disposed of the representation of the petitioner rejecting his prayer to<\/p>\n<p>drop the departmental proceeding. However, subsequently,                the said<\/p>\n<p>order was modified by resolution dated 16\/07\/2001, contained in<\/p>\n<p>Annexure-11 to this writ petition, wherein it was mentioned that the<\/p>\n<p>Board has decided to take a lenient view of the matter by closing the<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                   -3-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>matter and decided to recover the excess amount of pay and other<\/p>\n<p>allowances drawn by the petitioner beyond 31\/01\/1999, i.e. due date<\/p>\n<p>of his retirement, which has been challenged by the petitioner in this<\/p>\n<p>writ petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>             The main contention of the respondents Bihar State<\/p>\n<p>Electricity Board is that since the petitioner was knowing his actual<\/p>\n<p>date of birth and, therefore, under Rule 78 (ii) (a) of the Bihar State<\/p>\n<p>Electricity Board Service Regulation, it was his duty and responsibility<\/p>\n<p>to demit the office on the basis of his date of birth but he continued<\/p>\n<p>even beyond 31\/01\/1999, the date on which he was due to retire.<\/p>\n<p>             Except simply denying about the statement made by the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner in the writ petitioner particularly in paragraphs 9 and 10,<\/p>\n<p>wherein he stated that the letters were sent to the Board by the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner requesting to rectify the wrong entry in his service book, no<\/p>\n<p>specific reply has been given by the Board. It is also not disputed that<\/p>\n<p>the   respondents   Board   took    work   from   the   petitioner   beyond<\/p>\n<p>31\/01\/1999 till the date 27\/05\/2000, the date on which he was<\/p>\n<p>directed to stop work. It is not the case of the respondents that the<\/p>\n<p>wrong entry regarding date of birth in the service book of the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>was recorded because of any misrepresentation or fraud committed by<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner. Whatever mistake was committed in making wrong entry<\/p>\n<p>in the service book was by or at the instance of the concerned person,<\/p>\n<p>who was responsible to make entry in the service book. The blame of<\/p>\n<p>wrong entry in the service book cannot be put on the head of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner. Therefore, for the mistake committed by the concerned<\/p>\n<p>official of the Board making wrong entry in the service book, the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner cannot be penalized.\n<\/p>\n<p>             In this view of the matter, the resolution of the Board to<\/p>\n<p>recover the amount of pay and other allowance drawn by the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>beyond 31\/01\/1999 cannot be sustained. Accordingly, this writ<\/p>\n<p>petition is allowed and that part of the order dated 16\/07\/2001,<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                         -4-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contained in Annexure-11 to this writ petition by which the order has<\/p>\n<p>        been passed to recover the excess amount of pay and other allowance<\/p>\n<p>        from the amount due as post retiral benefits of the petitioner beyond<\/p>\n<p>        31\/01\/1999, is hereby quashed. The respondents Jharkhand State<\/p>\n<p>        Electricity Board is directed to pay the retiral dues to the petitioner as<\/p>\n<p>        per the resolution dated 16\/07\/2001 within a period of eight weeks<\/p>\n<p>        from the date of this order.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                          (Amareshwar Sahay, J)<\/p>\n<p>SI-Mukund\/-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Bhubneshwar Mandal vs Bihar State Electricity Board on 23 July, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI W.P. (S) No. 2792 of 2003 Bhubneshwar Mandal &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Petitioner. Versus Bihar State Electricity Board &amp; Ors &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Respondents &#8230;&#8230; Coram: Hon&#8217;ble Mr. Justice Amareshwar Sahay &#8230;&#8230; For the petitioner : Mr. Indrajit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-jharkhand-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bhubneshwar Mandal vs Bihar State Electricity Board on 23 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhubneshwar-mandal-vs-bihar-state-electricity-board-on-23-july-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bhubneshwar Mandal vs Bihar State Electricity Board on 23 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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