{"id":258051,"date":"2011-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vijaykumar-vs-secretary-on-22-july-2011"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:08:50","slug":"vijaykumar-vs-secretary-on-22-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vijaykumar-vs-secretary-on-22-july-2011","title":{"rendered":"Vijaykumar vs Secretary on 22 July, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Vijaykumar vs Secretary on 22 July, 2011<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: H.K.Rathod,<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">  \n Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n    \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nSCA\/9035\/2011\t 2\/ 2\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 9035 of 2011\n \n\n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nVIJAYKUMAR\nB JOSHI - Petitioner(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nSECRETARY\n&amp; 2 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMS\nSRUSHTI A THULA for\nPetitioner(s) : 1, \nMR MAULIK NANAVATI, AGP for Respondent(s) :\n1, \nNone for Respondent(s) : 2 -\n3. \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE H.K.RATHOD\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 22\/07\/2011 \n\n \n\nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">\tHeard<br \/>\nlearned advocates appearing on behalf of respective parties.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">\tThe<br \/>\norder which has been passed by respondent on 1st April<br \/>\n2009, page 18, Annexure &#8216;A&#8217; is under challenge, wherein, it has been<br \/>\ndecided by respondents that petitioner is not entitled benefit of<br \/>\nhigher grade as per Government Resolution dated 16th<br \/>\nAugust, 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">\tThe<br \/>\npetitioner has already retired from service in year of 2005 and<br \/>\nclaiming benefit of first higher grade benefit w.e.f. 1995. For that,<br \/>\nin between, no decision has been taken by other side and even no<br \/>\nsincere efforts have been made by petitioner.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">\tTherefore,<br \/>\nin light of this background, let petitioner may make detailed<br \/>\nrepresentation to respondents against order dated 1st<br \/>\nApril, 2009, page 18, Annexure &#8216;A&#8217; within a period of one month from<br \/>\ndate of receiving copy of present order.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">\tAs<br \/>\nand when respondents receive such representation from petitioner, it<br \/>\nis directed to respondents to reconsider and reexamine matter and<br \/>\nalso to reconsider decision dated 1st April, 2009 after<br \/>\nconsidering representation made by petitioner and pass appropriate<br \/>\nreasoned order within a period of three months from date of receiving<br \/>\ncopy of present order and communicate decision to petitioner<br \/>\nimmediately.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_5\">\tIn<br \/>\nview of above observation and direction, present petition is disposed<br \/>\nof by this Court without expressing any opinion on merits.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_6\">\tHowever,<br \/>\nit is made clear that in case, if ultimate decision is adverse to<br \/>\npetitioner, it is open for petitioner to challenge same before<br \/>\nappropriate forum by filing appropriate proceedings in accordance<br \/>\nwith law.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_7\">\tDirect<br \/>\nservice is permitted.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_8\">[H.K.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_9\">RATHOD, J.]<\/p>\n<p>#Dave<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Vijaykumar vs Secretary on 22 July, 2011 Author: H.K.Rathod, Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCA\/9035\/2011 2\/ 2 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 9035 of 2011 ========================================================= VIJAYKUMAR B JOSHI &#8211; Petitioner(s) Versus SECRETARY &amp; 2 &#8211; Respondent(s) ========================================================= Appearance : MS SRUSHTI [&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":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vijaykumar vs Secretary on 22 July, 2011 - 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\/vijaykumar-vs-secretary-on-22-july-2011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vijaykumar vs Secretary on 22 July, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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