{"id":244672,"date":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/silas-aind-vs-state-of-jharkhand-ors-on-28-april-2009"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:01:25","slug":"silas-aind-vs-state-of-jharkhand-ors-on-28-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/silas-aind-vs-state-of-jharkhand-ors-on-28-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"Silas Aind vs State Of Jharkhand &amp; Ors. on 28 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Silas Aind vs State Of Jharkhand &amp; Ors. on 28 April, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>             IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI.\n                             W.P. (S) No. 3531 of 2005\n                                             ...\n             Silas Aind                                     ...       ...      Petitioner\n                                     -V e r s u s-\n             The State of Jharkhand &amp; Others                        ...      Respondents.\n                                             ...\nCORAM: - HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE D.G.R. PATNAIK.\n                                             ...\n             For the Petitioner              : - Mr. A. K. Sahani, Advocate.\n             For the Respondent-State        : - Mrs. Kiran Burman, J.C. to S.C. (Mines).\n             For the Respondent No. 4        : - Mr. Sudarshan Shrivastava, Advocate.\n                                             ...\n3\/28.04.2009<\/pre>\n<p>                 Petitioner in this writ application, has prayed for a direction upon<br \/>\n              the concerned Respondents, particularly to the Respondent No. 3 to release the<br \/>\n              petitioner&#8217;s salary for the period February, 1999 to May, 2000 and adjust 308<br \/>\n              days against the Half Pay Leave and for a further direction to pay the arrears of<br \/>\n              salary for the aforesaid period and also pension with interest.\n<\/p>\n<p>              2.               Heard Mr. A. K. Sahani, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mrs.<br \/>\n              Kiran Burman, learned J.C. to SC. (Mines) for the Respondent-State as also Mr.<br \/>\n              Sudarshan Shrivastava, learned counsel for the Respondent No. 4 and perused the<br \/>\n              counter affidavit filed on behalf of the Respondents.\n<\/p>\n<p>                               With the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, this case is<br \/>\n              heard and disposed of at the stage of admission itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>              3.               The facts of the petitioner&#8217;s case in brief are that he was initially<br \/>\n              employed as a Headmaster in the Kisan Uchcha Vidyalay, Dehkela in the district<br \/>\n              of Ranchi. Later in May, 1981, the School was taken over by the then State of<br \/>\n              Bihar under the provisions of Bihar Government School taking Over Act, 1980<br \/>\n              and thereafter, he was authorized by then District Education Officer to continue as<br \/>\n              Headmaster in the aforesaid School.\n<\/p>\n<p>              4.               In the month of February, 1999, an order was issued transferring<br \/>\n              the petitioner from Government High School, Dehkela to Shankari High School,<br \/>\n              Itki. The petitioner challenged the aforesaid order of his transfer by filing a writ<br \/>\n              application being C.W.J.C. No. 1831 of 1999 (R) before this Court. During the<br \/>\n              pendency of the writ application, the order of his transfer was recalled, by the<br \/>\n              Additional Director of Education, Ranchi vide his order dated 25.04.2000 with a<br \/>\n              direction that the petitioner shall be allowed to continue in his original post as it<br \/>\n              was.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                      Under such circumstances, the aforesaid writ application<br \/>\n              was disposed of by order dated 20.02.2001, with an observation that the petitioner<br \/>\n              may file his representation before the concerned authorities for payment of arrears<br \/>\n              of his salary.\n<\/p>\n<p>              5.               The petitioner filed representation to the District Education Officer<br \/>\n              and the District Education Officer, vide his order dated 14.10.2001, had directed<br \/>\n              for payment of the arrears of salary to the petitioner. Inspite of the aforesaid order,<br \/>\n              the arrears of the petitioner&#8217;s salary was not paid to him and during the pendency<br \/>\n of his representation, the petitioner has retired from service on 28 th February,<br \/>\n2003.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.             Post retirement, the petitioner expecting payment of his retiral<br \/>\nbenefits to be paid to him but except the amount of G.P.F., the other amounts<br \/>\nwere not paid to him. Thereafter, the petitioner filed his representation before the<br \/>\nconcerned authorities demanding payment of the arrears of his salary and in<br \/>\nresponse, the Respondents had fixed and paid his pension and Gratuity. However,<br \/>\nhis claim for the arrears of salary for the period, February, 1999 to May, 2000 was<br \/>\nnot acceded on the ground that he was absent from duty, during that period and<br \/>\nhad not even applied for leave for such period. Instead, the Respondents had<br \/>\nadjusted the period of the purported absence towards his leave both unutilised and<br \/>\nhalf pay leave and after calculating the amounts payable, had released the payable<br \/>\namounts to him on the basis of a total 180 permissible days leave.\n<\/p>\n<p>7.             The grievance of the petitioner is that by the order under which the<br \/>\nearlier order of transfer was recalled and the petitioner was allowed to continue in<br \/>\nhis post as before. As such, the impugned order i.e. (Annexure-4) by which the<br \/>\nperiod between February, 1999 to May, 2000 has been treated as absence from<br \/>\nduty is illegal and the Respondents cannot presume that the petitioner was absent<br \/>\nduring that period. Learned counsel for the petitioner would further argue that the<br \/>\ntotal period of earned leave, even according to the Rules at the relevant date, was<br \/>\n240 days and instead of computing the leave on such basis, the Respondents have<br \/>\narbitrarily counted the aforesaid period on the basis of 180 days only and illegally<br \/>\ndenied the petitioner&#8217;s salary. The petitioner therefore is entitled the leave salary<br \/>\nfor the remaining period.\n<\/p>\n<p>8.             Per contra, learned counsel for the Respondent-State submits that<br \/>\nin pursuance to the order of his transfer, the petitioner ought to have left his post.<br \/>\nInstead, had challenged his order of transfer by filing the aforesaid writ<br \/>\napplication and he succeeded too but in between the date of the order of his<br \/>\ntransfer till the recall of the order passed in April, 2000, the petitioner did not<br \/>\nmark his attendance in the School and neither did he filed any application seeking<br \/>\nany leave.\n<\/p>\n<p>9.              Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that such<br \/>\nsubmissions on the part of the learned counsel for the Respondents is against the<br \/>\npleadings in as much as there is no averment in the counter affidavit that the<br \/>\npetitioner had not marked his attendance during the aforesaid period or that he is<br \/>\ndeemed to have been relieved from the post pursuant to the order of his transfer.\n<\/p>\n<p>10.            It is not the petitioner&#8217;s case, that since the date of the order of his<br \/>\ntransfer, he had regularly attended the School and marked his attendance and<br \/>\ncontinued to remain in the School notwithstanding the order of his transfer.<br \/>\nAdmittedly, he had challenged the order of his transfer by filing the writ<br \/>\napplication and though he could persuade the concerned authorities of the<br \/>\nRespondents to recall the order of his transfer. The recall order, would suggest<br \/>\n       that the petitioner was allowed to continue in his previous post as before, meaning<br \/>\n      thereby that the transfer order would not affect the petitioner&#8217;s continuation in his<br \/>\n      post in the School.\n<\/p>\n<p>      11.             The order does not clarify as to whether the petitioner should have<br \/>\n      marked his attendance during the period commencing of the order of his transfer<br \/>\n      and till the date, the transfer order was recalled.\n<\/p>\n<p>      12.             Learned counsel for the petitioner would however, insist that the<br \/>\n      petitioner did mark his attendance regularly by attending his School\/Office even<br \/>\n      during the aforesaid period and this aspect of the matter was not verified before<br \/>\n      passing the impugned order.\n<\/p>\n<p>      13.             Be that as it may, considering the petitioner&#8217;s claim that he had<br \/>\n      marked his attendance during the period between February, 1999 to April, 2000,<br \/>\n      the Respondents authorities shall verify the same from the Attendance Register of<br \/>\n      the School and if it is confirmed that the petitioner did mark his attendance for the<br \/>\n      foresaid period, then in the light of the order recalling the earlier transfer order,<br \/>\n      the Respondents within three months of the date of receipt\/production of this<br \/>\n      order, shall consider the payment of the salary for the aforesaid period. The<br \/>\n      Respondents shall also consider the petitioner&#8217;s claim regarding the permissible<br \/>\n      days of earned leave and if they find that the relevant Rules permits 240 days of<br \/>\n      earned leave then the Respondents shall compute the payable amount of salary<br \/>\n      accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<p>      14.             With these observations, this writ application stands disposed of.\n<\/p>\n<p>      15.             Let a copy of this order be given to the learned counsel for the<br \/>\n      Respondent-State.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   (D.G.R. Patnaik, J.)<br \/>\nAPK\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Silas Aind vs State Of Jharkhand &amp; Ors. on 28 April, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI. W.P. (S) No. 3531 of 2005 &#8230; Silas Aind &#8230; &#8230; Petitioner -V e r s u s- The State of Jharkhand &amp; Others &#8230; Respondents. &#8230; CORAM: &#8211; HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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