{"id":159407,"date":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mani-shankar-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-29-october-2010"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T07:08:20","slug":"mani-shankar-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-29-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mani-shankar-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-29-october-2010","title":{"rendered":"Mani Shankar vs The State Of Bihar &amp;Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mani Shankar vs The State Of Bihar &amp;Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>                    IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                                       CWJC No.4015 of 2006\n                   MANI SHANKAR son of late Phulena Prasad Verma, resident of\n                   Mohalla - Chandmari, P O - Motihari, District - East Champaran,\n                   presently posted A\/C Road Construction Division, Dhaka, P.O. Dhaka,\n                   District - East Champaran.\n                                                    Versus\n                   1. THE STATE OF BIHAR.\n                   2. The Secretary, Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna.\n                   3. The Engineer-in-Chief cum Administrative Commissioner cum\n                       Special Secretary, Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna.\n                   4. The Superintending Engineer, Road Construction Department,\n                       North Bihar Circle, Muzaffarpur.\n                   5. The Executive Engineer, Road Construction Department, Road\n                       Division Dhaka, East Champaran.\n                                                -----------\n<\/pre>\n<p>02.   29.10.2010                The reason for refusal to grant benefit of second time bound<\/p>\n<p>                    under the ACP scheme on completion of 24 years of service to the<\/p>\n<p>                    petitioner is non passing of the departmental examination. Annexure-3<\/p>\n<p>                    states that position. The letter is dated 30.9.2005 where the name of the<\/p>\n<p>                    petitioner also figures.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                Contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that<\/p>\n<p>                    for many a years the departmental examination has not been conducted<\/p>\n<p>                    by the concerned department and that is the reason why the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>                    could not have a go in the examination after having failed in a paper or<\/p>\n<p>                    two in the earlier examination. There is a duty cast upon the State to<\/p>\n<p>                    hold examination annually but if there is a failure on the part of the<\/p>\n<p>                    State authorities to conduct the examination, then it can not be said that<\/p>\n<p>                    the employee would be debarred from the benefit because he had not<\/p>\n<p>                    passed the examination. The question of passing or failure would only<\/p>\n<p>                    arise provided examination is held regularly.<\/p>\n<p>                                Stand of the State in the counter affidavit is in similar terms<\/p>\n<p>                    that under the scheme of the ACP passing of a departmental<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                              2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      examination is a must.\n<\/p>\n<p>                   There cannot be any quarrel with the policy but then the<\/p>\n<p>      obligation which has been created under the rules is also required to be<\/p>\n<p>      shouldered by the State authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>                   Either the State      should take steps       for holding the<\/p>\n<p>      examination and give opportunity to all those persons who would like to<\/p>\n<p>      participate in the said examination or may consider granting waiver<\/p>\n<p>      since the failure has been theirs and it is not attributable to the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>      on this count.\n<\/p>\n<p>                   The Court is informed that in some cases such waiver has<\/p>\n<p>      been granted keeping in mind that the departmental examination could<\/p>\n<p>      not be conducted for many a years.\n<\/p>\n<p>                   Be that as it may, the matter is being relegated back to the<\/p>\n<p>      concerned authority with a direction that either a departmental<\/p>\n<p>      examination ought to be held forthwith where petitioner would be<\/p>\n<p>      given an opportunity to appear and clear the papers or appropriate<\/p>\n<p>      indulgence by way of waiver may be considered in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>                   The writ application stands disposed of with the above<\/p>\n<p>      direction.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre>rkp                              ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders Mani Shankar vs The State Of Bihar &amp;Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4015 of 2006 MANI SHANKAR son of late Phulena Prasad Verma, resident of Mohalla &#8211; Chandmari, P O &#8211; Motihari, District &#8211; East Champaran, presently posted A\/C Road [&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":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mani Shankar vs The State Of Bihar &amp;Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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