Alok Kumar v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief/Prin. Secy. Irrigation and Water Resources U.P. Lko. and Another

Court No. - 20 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8016 of 2023 Petitioner :- Alok Kumar Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief/Prin. Secy. Irrigation And Water Resources U.P. Lko. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Raj Kumar Upadhyaya (R.K.Upadhyaya) Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Mathur,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned State Counsel for opposite parties.

¶2Petition has been filed seeking direction to opposite parties to consider petitioner's case for promotion on a Group-III post of Junior Assistant under the 15% reserved quota of High School qualified Class-IV employees. Consequential benefits of pay and allowances have also been sought.

¶3For the said grievance, petitioner has already submitted a representation dated 04.09.2023 before the authority concerned. At present, learned counsel for petitioner restricts prayer with regard to final decision on the same.

¶4Considering the innocuous prayer, without entering into merits, opposite party no.2 i.e. Engineer-in-Chief, Irrigation Department U.P., Sinchai Bhawan, Lucknow is directed to consider and decide representation of petitioner dated

04.09.2023 particularly in view of fact that similarly situated employees have already been granted such promotions, expeditiously within a period of eight weeks from the date a copy of this order is produced before authority concerned along with a copy of said representation.

¶5With aforesaid observations and directions, the petition is finally disposed of. Order Date :- 16.10.2023 kvg/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench