{"id":189617,"date":"2011-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/keshaw-prasad-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-6-april-2011"},"modified":"2017-10-23T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T01:12:05","slug":"keshaw-prasad-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-6-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/keshaw-prasad-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-amp-ors-on-6-april-2011","title":{"rendered":"Keshaw Prasad Singh vs The State Of Bihar &Amp; Ors on 6 April, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Patna High Court – Orders<\/div>\n
Keshaw Prasad Singh vs The State Of Bihar &Amp; Ors on 6 April, 2011<\/div>\n
                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                                CWJC No.8925 of 2005\n                     KESHAW PRASAD SINGH, SON OF SRI JANARDAN\n                     PRASAD SINGH, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-\n                     PANCHGACHHIA,      P.S.     BIHRA,       DISTRICT-\n                     SAHARSA, PRESENTLY POSTED AS ASSISTANT IN\n                     THE OFFICE OF SUB-DIVISIONAL EDUCATION\n                     OFFICER, BIRPUR, SUPAUL, DISTRICT- SUPAUL.\n                                                       ... PETITIONER.\n                                        Versus\n                     1.   THE STATE OF BIHAR.\n                     2.   THE SECRETARY-CUM-COMMISSIONER,\n                          HUMAN RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT\n                          DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR,\n                          PATNA.\n                     3.   THE DIRECTOR, SECONDARY EDUCATION-\n                          CUM-SPECIAL SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT\n                          OF BIHAR, PATNA.\n                     4.   THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, SECONDARY\n                          EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, NEW\n                          SECRETARIAT, PATNA.\n                     5.   THE REGIONAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF\n                          EDUCATION, KOSHI DIVISION, SAHARSA.\n                                                  -----------\n<\/pre>\n
12.   06.04.2011            Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the<\/p>\n
                   State.\n<\/p>\n
                            2. This application was filed by the petitioner<\/p>\n
                   initially for quashing of an order contained in letter dated<\/p>\n
                   21.9.2004 issued by the Deputy Director Secondary<\/p>\n
                   Education, Government of Bihar, contained in memo<\/p>\n
                   no.1531, whereby he was directed to appear before the<\/p>\n
                   respondent no.3 with all connected documents relating to<\/p>\n
                   his appointment, so that genuiness of his appointment can
\n                   2<\/span><\/p>\n
be examined. During the pendency of the writ application,<\/p>\n
the   inquiry   regarding   genuineness    of     petitioner’s<\/p>\n
appointment     completed   and   order   dated     6.3.2006<\/p>\n
contained in memo no.394 was issued by the Director<\/p>\n
Secondary Education, Government of Bihar terminating<\/p>\n
the petitioner from his service. The impugned orders have<\/p>\n
been challenged by the petitioner on the ground that it is<\/p>\n
completely, unreasonable, illegal and discriminatory.<\/p>\n
        3. Initially, the petitioner was appointed against<\/p>\n
leave vacancy on 7.9.1987 and worked on the post of clerk<\/p>\n
at Nationalised High School, Jamhara, for three months.<\/p>\n
Thereafter he was re-appointed against leave vacancy post<\/p>\n
and continued up to 30.6.1988. A notice was published<\/p>\n
relating to vacancies existing on Class-III posts in Koshi<\/p>\n
Division by Regional Deputy Director of Education,<\/p>\n
Saharsa on 6.1.1989. The petitioner also applied for the<\/p>\n
post in response to this notice of vacancies. Petitioner was<\/p>\n
asked to appear for interview before the Divisional<\/p>\n
Establishment committee vide memo no. 7572 dated<\/p>\n
25.6.1989 and the interview was held on 17.7.1989. The<\/p>\n
Establishment committee resolved to pass necessary<\/p>\n
orders relating to appointment of interviewed candidates in
\n                    3<\/span><\/p>\n
its next meeting but it was not done till 1991, as such<\/p>\n
petitioner has to file C.W.J.C. No.10387 of 1992 in the<\/p>\n
High Court for a direction to the respondents to issue<\/p>\n
appointment letter in his favour. The writ application was<\/p>\n
disposed of with an observation that in the event their<\/p>\n
exists any vacancy and if the State thinks to fill up those<\/p>\n
vacancies, the case of the petitioner shall be considered on<\/p>\n
its merit, alongwith other eligible candidates, in terms of<\/p>\n
aforementioned rules i.e. Bihar National Secondary<\/p>\n
Education Rule-1983. The direction was also there to<\/p>\n
consider the case of the petitioner sympathitically, giving<\/p>\n
relaxation of age. In the light of the observation\/direction<\/p>\n
issued in the writ application the Regional Deputy<\/p>\n
Director of Education made a correspondence with the<\/p>\n
Director Secondary Education regarding re-appointmnent<\/p>\n
of the petitioner as a retrenched employee. The Director<\/p>\n
Secondary Education, vide letter contained in memo no.<\/p>\n
417 dated 29.6.1993, directed for re-appointment of the<\/p>\n
petitioner, as a special case, against any available<\/p>\n
sanctioned vacancy in any of the offices of Human<\/p>\n
Resources Development Department or in any educational<\/p>\n
institution in the District. It was also specificaly mentioned
\n                    4<\/span><\/p>\n
in this letter that the petitioner’s appointment will not be<\/p>\n
considered as a precedence and his previous service will<\/p>\n
not be counted for the continuity in service, and no<\/p>\n
benefits accruing from the previous appointment will be<\/p>\n
available to the petitioner. In the light of the direction of<\/p>\n
the   Director,   Primary     Secondary     Education,    an<\/p>\n
appointment letter was issued in favour of the petitioner<\/p>\n
and he joined in the office of Sub-divisional Education<\/p>\n
Officer, Birpur, Supaul. The post on which the petitioner<\/p>\n
joined was a sanctioned post and it was vacant.<\/p>\n
         4. Records connected with the appointment of<\/p>\n
petitioner has been produced by the counsel apearing for<\/p>\n
State, a letter issued by Regional Deputy Director, Saharsa<\/p>\n
is the part of this record from which it transpires that<\/p>\n
payment of salary started to the petitioner, subsequent to<\/p>\n
the inquiry and verification of the legality of the<\/p>\n
petitioner’s appointment and     only on approval by the<\/p>\n
Director (Secondary) Education.. Petitioner, thereafter,<\/p>\n
continued on his post till 1997. The then Director<\/p>\n
(Secondary) Education, while examining the genuiness<\/p>\n
and legality of the appointment of another person also<\/p>\n
examined the legality of petitioner’s appointment and
\n                    5<\/span><\/p>\n
found that his appointment had been made on the post of<\/p>\n
clerk in Sub-divisional Education Office, Birpur, without<\/p>\n
following the proper prescribed procedure of appointment.<\/p>\n
As the prescribed procedure of appointment in the circular<\/p>\n
of Personal and Administrative Reforms Department had<\/p>\n
not been followed, as such treating the appointment as<\/p>\n
illegal, petitioner was terminated from his service, even<\/p>\n
without issuing any show cause notice. The termination<\/p>\n
order also challenged by the petitioner in C.W.J.C. No.<\/p>\n
2541 of 1997, and the termination order was quashed vide<\/p>\n
order dated 23.10.1997. The respondents were directed to<\/p>\n
pass fresh order after a show cause notice to the petitioner.<\/p>\n
The show cause notice was issued to the petitioner in the<\/p>\n
light of the order passed in the writ applicaton and<\/p>\n
thereafter the final order was passed, challenging which,<\/p>\n
present writ application has been filed.\n<\/p>\n
         5. A counter affidavit filed on behalf of the State<\/p>\n
is specific on this point that since the procedure prescribed<\/p>\n
in the Personal and Administrative Reforms Department<\/p>\n
circular was not followed in the appointment of the<\/p>\n
petitioner as such his appointment was illegal. The<\/p>\n
procedure as laid down in the Personal and Administrative
\n                   6<\/span><\/p>\n
Reforms Department letter no. 16441 dated 3.12.1980 is<\/p>\n
that the vacancies must be advertised, panel be prepared,<\/p>\n
following the rule of reservation only appointment letters<\/p>\n
can be issued against the post advertised. Since, the<\/p>\n
petitioner was appointed without following the procedure,<\/p>\n
it was an illegal appointment and termination order passed.<\/p>\n
        6. Counsel for the petitioner, on the other hand,<\/p>\n
submits that so far circular contained in letter no. 16441<\/p>\n
dated 6.12.1980 of Personal and Administrative Reforms<\/p>\n
Department is concerned, that has no application in the<\/p>\n
matters of appointment, in the Regional offices of the<\/p>\n
Education    Department      for    valid   appointments.<\/p>\n
Appointments in the Regional offices of Education<\/p>\n
Department has to be made following the statutory rules<\/p>\n
framed by the State Government. The Rule prescribed that<\/p>\n
a committee will be constituted under the statutory rules,<\/p>\n
and on recommendation of such committee, appointment<\/p>\n
is to be made. In the case of petitioner, admittedly the<\/p>\n
Regional    Level     Establishment     Committee      had<\/p>\n
recommended for issuance of appointment letter in favour<\/p>\n
of the petitioner as well as others. They were interviewed<\/p>\n
and subsequently as per the direction of the Director
\n                     7<\/span><\/p>\n
Secondary Education appointment letter was issued in<\/p>\n
favour of the petitioner. Counsel for the petitioner further<\/p>\n
submits that there is nothing to show that the appointment<\/p>\n
letter issued in favour of the petitioner was a forged letter.<\/p>\n
It is also not the case of the respondent that existing<\/p>\n
vacancies were not available, and petitioners were not<\/p>\n
interviewed. An advertisement was issued at the instance<\/p>\n
of the Regional Deputy Director candidates were<\/p>\n
interviewed by Establishment Committee, and resolution<\/p>\n
had been taken for issuing necessary orders for<\/p>\n
appointment of interviewed candidates. Since it was not<\/p>\n
done, the petitioner moved before the High Court and the<\/p>\n
writ application was disposed of with an observation that<\/p>\n
the case of the petitioner should be considered<\/p>\n
compoassionately. That compassion was shown by the<\/p>\n
Director (Secondary) Education and as per his direction<\/p>\n
his   appointment       letter   had   been     issued.   In   this<\/p>\n
circumstance, there was no reason for holding that<\/p>\n
petitioner   was    appointed      illegally,    as   procedures<\/p>\n
mentioned in the circular of Personal and Administrative<\/p>\n
Reforms Department were not observed.. This circular has<\/p>\n
no application in appointments in the Regional Office of
\n                   8<\/span><\/p>\n
the Education Department.\n<\/p>\n
         7. The petitioner has also alleged discrimination<\/p>\n
on the ground that vide Annexure-16 petitioner as well as<\/p>\n
Pancham Singh both were directed to be terminated from<\/p>\n
the post of clerks. Petitioner and Pancham Singh both<\/p>\n
challenged the termination order. Termination order of<\/p>\n
Pancham Singh was quashed and he was re-instated on his<\/p>\n
post. He died in harness and after the death of Pancham<\/p>\n
Singh, his son was appointed on compassionate ground.<\/p>\n
Since, Pancham Singh was reinstated, there was no reason<\/p>\n
for coming to a different conclusion in the case of the<\/p>\n
petitioner.\n<\/p>\n
         8. I find that procedure for legal appointment had<\/p>\n
been followed halfway in the case of the petitioner.<\/p>\n
However, there is nothing to show that any panel was<\/p>\n
prepared, subsequent to the interview, but petitioner was<\/p>\n
appointed as a special case by the Director Secondary<\/p>\n
Education, in the light of the observation made in the writ<\/p>\n
application. In this circumstance, after remaining of<\/p>\n
service for so many years, there was no reason for<\/p>\n
terminating the petitioner from his post. Petitioner is also<\/p>\n
entitled for similar treatment as given to a similarly
\n                              9<\/span><\/p>\n
          situated employee Pancham Singh. That aspect was also<\/p>\n
          not considered by the respondents while issuing of<\/p>\n
          termination order against the petitioner.<\/p>\n
                   9. For all these reasons, I find that the impugned<\/p>\n
          order contained in Annexure-30 issued by the Director<\/p>\n
          Primary Secondary Education contained in memo no.394<\/p>\n
          dated 6.3.2006 is quashed.\n<\/p>\n
                   10. This writ application is allowed. The<\/p>\n
          respondents are directed to reinstate the petitioner with all<\/p>\n
          consequential benefits.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ibrar\/-                                   ( Mridula Mishra, J.)\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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