Jangjeet Narayan Pandey v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue and 3 Others

Court No. - 20 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8755 of 2023 Petitioner :- Jangjeet Narayan Pandey Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Deep Narayan Tripathi 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 seeking the following reliefs:-

i) To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the opposite parties to give the benefit of Annual Career Progression of 14 years, 19 years and 24 years of his services and the arrears of unpaid salary for the period of 13.07.1996 to

31.07.1996 and 01.09.1998 to 08.09.1998 as well as the salary for the month June and July 1997 while he was working as Lekhpal in Tehsil-Bikapur, District-Faizabad now Ayodhya.

ii) To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the opposite parties to take decision on the representation of the petitioner by passing the reasoned and speaking order within the stipulated period.

iii) To issue any other writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit, just and proper under the circumstances of the case.

iv) Allow the writ petition with costs.

¶3It has been submitted that non-payment of benefits as claimed in the writ petition indicates a continuing cause of action to petitioner for which the present petition is maintainable.

¶4For the said grievance, petitioner has already submitted a representation but seeks liberty to file a fresh representation before the authority concerned. At present, learned counsel for petitioner restricts prayer with regard to final decision on the same.

¶5Considering the innocuous prayer, without entering into merits, liberty is granted to petitioner to file a fresh representation before opposite party no.3 i.e. Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Bikapur, District Ayodhya or any other competent authority who shall consider and decide the same within a period of eight weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before the said authority along with fresh representation.

¶6With aforesaid observations and directions, the petition is finally disposed of. Order Date :- 8.11.2023 kvg/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench