Jc-353396P Ex Sub/ Cipher Mileswar Nath and 135 Ors v. The Union of India and 2 Ors

Serial No. 14 Regular List HIGH COURT OF MEGHALAYA AT SHILLONG WP (C) No. 61 of 2024

Date of Decision: 01.05.2024

¶1JC-353396P Ex Sub/ Cipher Mileswar Nath, aged about 63 years S/O Late Dhaturam Nath, retired from 12 Assam Rifles C/O 99

¶2JC-353472W Ex Sub/ Cipher Gopal Chandra Aich, aged about 64 years S/O Late Netai Chandra Aich, retired from ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶3JC-353622F Ex Sub/ Cipher Omprakash Rai, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Agnu Rai, retired from 36 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶4JC-353439Y Ex Sub/ Cipher Rajbir Singh, aged about 65 year, S/O Late Balbir Singh, retired from ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶5JC-353625P Ex Sub/ Cipher Dineshwar Singh Bisht, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Chander Singh Bisht, retired from 23 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶6JC-353175H Ex Sub/ Cipher Jaswant Singh Negi, aged about 64 years, Late Diwan Singh Negi, retired from 6 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶7JC-353180N Ex Sub/ Cipher R P Pandey, aged about 65 years, S/O Late Satrughan Pandey, retired from HQ IGAR(North), C/O 99 APO.

¶8JC-353093A Ex Sub/ Cipher P N Sasi, aged about 65 years, S/O Late T G Nadarajan, retired from 9 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶9JC-353674X Ex Sub/ Cipher Krishna Hatimuria, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Jatiram Hatimuria, retired from 33 Assam Rifles,

¶10JC-353720F Ex Sub/ Cipher Birendra Nath, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Maheswar Nath, retired from 19 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶11JC-354378Y Ex Sub/ Cipher Nantu Kumar Baidya, aged about 60 yeas, S/O Late Satish Ch Baidya, retired from 39 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶12JC-353804P Ex Sub/ Cipher Babu Rajan C, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Chandra Senan, retired from 39 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶13JC-354145X Ex Sub/ Cipher Yogendra Singh, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Tapeshwer singh, retired from HQ 10 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶14JC-354590W Ex Sub/ Cipher Tilak Chand Katoch, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Bhumi Chand, retired from HQ 7Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶15JC-354564P Ex Sub/ Cipher Rajiba Lochan Dey, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Harendra Nath Dey, retired from 16Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶16JC-353390N Ex Sub/ Cipher Kanai Lal Banik, aged about 64 years, S/O Late Kala Chand Banik, retired from 17 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶17JC-353918A Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Ram Krishna Verma, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Durgahi, retired from HQ 22 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶18JC-354319M Ex Nb sub/ Cipher Chako A V, aged about 63 years, S/O Late A T Varghese, retired from ARTC & S , Dimapur, Nagaland.

¶19JC-354615X Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Swapan Debnath, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Ngendra Ch Debnath, retired from 29 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶20JC-354175P Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Sajeev M S, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Sreedharan M S, retired from 12 Assam Rifles,

¶21JC-353489K Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Indrajeet Yadav, aged about 65 years, S/O Late Narayan Yadav, retired from 36 Assam Rifles,

¶22JC-353949A Ex Nb Sub/Cipher Ramendra Bhattacharjee, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Ramdhan Bhattacharjee, retired from HQ 22Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶23JC-354420M Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Dharampal Saini, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Ramkishan, retired from 6 Assam Rifles,

¶24JC-354598H Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Ashok Kumar Rai, aged about 63 years, S/ O Late Prem Kumar Rai, retired from 14Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶25JC-353877F Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Vijay Kumar K, aged 62 years, about, S/O Late Karunakaran, retired from HQ 25 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶26JC-354464K Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Hari Badan Singh, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Raj Bahadur Singh, retired from HQ 27 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶27JC-353702 Ex Nb Sub/ Cipher Shish Ram, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Bahadur Singh Yadav, retired from 7 Assam Rifles,

¶28355734A Ex WO/ Cipher Ramesh Singh, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Narendra Pratap Singh, retired from HQ 21 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶29354095X Ex WO/ Cipher Jeet Singh, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Bir Singh, retired from 41 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶30354944N Ex WO/Cipher Thomas TA, aged about 61 years S/O Late K C Samuel, retired from 40 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶31354957L Ex WO/ Cipher Chain Singh Thakur, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Basant Singh Thakur, retired from 2 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶32354702L Ex WO/ Cipher Muraleedharan V, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Velu, retired from ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶33354232L Ex WO/ Cipher Dhruba Jyoti Chakraborty, aged about 60 years, S/O Late Sushil Chakraborty, retired from 2 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶34353899A Ex WO/ Cipher Sunny M M, aged about 63 years S/O Late K O Mathew retired from service 8 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶35356179K Ex WO/ Cipher Bhimsen Sahoo, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Shyam Sundar Sahoo, retired 17 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶36353676H Ex Hav/ Cipher Udham Singh, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Jagmeg Singh, retired from 14 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶37356483N Ex Hav/ Cipher Jiten Kumar Singha, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Purno Singha, retired from 11 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶38356975M Ex WO/ Cipher Kulwant Singh Thapa, aged about 53 years, S/O Late Laxman Singh Thapa, retired from 36 Assam Rifles. C/O 99

¶39354272M EX Hav/ Cipher Biswajit Deb, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Sudhir Chandra Deb, retired from 1st Assam Rifles. C/O 99

¶40357022W Ex WO/ Cipher Arjun Pradhan, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Ser Bahadur Pradhan, retired from HQ 23 Sector Assam Rifles.

¶41355488A Ex WO/ Cipher Mohan Raj B, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Balakrishna Pilla, retired from 16 Assam Rifles. C/O 99 APO.

¶42JC-352690H, Ex Sub/ Cipher Udai Narayan Singh, aged about 66 years, S/O Late Dharm Raj Singh, retired from service 24 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶43JC-352993X Ex Sub/ Cipher Surat Singh, aged about 67 years, S/O Late Dei Ram, retired from HQ IGAR (North), C/O 99 APO.

¶44JC-354419X Ex NbSub/ Cipher, Pradip Biswas, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Surendra Kumar Biswas, retired from 37Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶45JC354583A Ex Nb sub/ Cipher, Bala Krishna Thapa, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Tamang Singh Thapa, retired from HQ IGAR (East),

¶46355083P Ex WO/ Cipher Manidas E, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Damodharan Nair , retired from HQ 7 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶47353107P Ex WO/ Cipher Harphool Singh Ola, aged about 64 years, S/O Late Hardewa Ram Ola, retired from ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶48356477A Ex Hav/ Cipher Sahab, aged about 56 years, S/O Uddin Sabur Uddin, retired from HQ IGAR(East), C/O 99 APO.

¶49353405L Ex Hav/ Cipher Ram Kumar, aged about 65 years S/O Daniram Sharma, retired from 31 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶50353022YExHav/ Cipher Bhageshwar Chand, aged about 67 years, S/O Late Rasila Ram, retired from 8 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶51357343N Ex WO/ Cipher Satrughna Sahoo, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Jogi Sahoo, retired from HQ 27Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶52354399P Ex Hav/ Cipher Shakti Charan Singh, aged about 62 years, S/O Late Ranjit Singh, retired from 18 ARssam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶53353906Lex Hav/ Cipher Surendra, aged about 63 years, S/O Late Girja Shanker, retired from 12 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶54352494H Ex Hav/ Cipher Gopinatha Panicker N, aged about 50 years, S/O Late Narayana Panicker V, retired from 29 Assam Rifles,

¶55355348N Ex Hav/ Cipher Madan Singh aged about 59 years, S/O Late Ghasi Ram, retired from 31Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶56356169A Ex Hav/ Cipher S N Swain, aged about 58 years, S/O Udaya Nath Swain, retired from HQ 26 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶57356173H Ex Hav/ Cipher Deban Puran, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Budhua Puran, retired from 20 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶58356213Y Ex Hav/ Cipher Srimanta Pal, aged about 56 years, S/O Mrityunjoy Pal, retired from 22 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶59353196Y Ex Hav/ Cipher Dayanand Deshwal, aged about 72 S/O Late Ramdass Deshwal, retired from 12 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶60354569N Ex Hav/ Cipher Hawa Singh, aged about 61 years, S/O Late Rameshwar Dayal, retired 6 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶61356918L Ex WO/ Cipher Devendra Singh, aged about 53 years, S/O Madho Singh, retired from 45 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶62356885L Ex WO/ Cipher Laxman Pun aged about 55 years, S/O Late Deva Ram Pun, retired from 16 Assam Rifles.

¶63JC-354080P Sub/ Cipher Md Hassan, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Syed Mohamed, serving at HQ DGAR, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶64JC-354585L Sub/ Cipher Varghese Thomas, aged about 59 years, S/O Late K V Thomas, serving at HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶65JC-354589F Sub/ Cipher Rameswaran K R, aged about 59 years, S/O Late N Raghavan, serving at 4 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶66JC-354377W Sub/ Cipher Arjun Kumar Pradhan, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Bhim bahadur Pradhan, serving at HQ 27 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶67JC-353933P Sub/ Cipher Babul Chandra Sil, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Gouranga Chandra Sil serving at 17 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶68JC-354548X Sub/ Cipher Chhote Lal Thakur, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Ramadhar Thakur, serving at 25 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶69JC-354985X Nb Sub/ Cipher Baban Prasad Singh, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Mangla Prasad Singh, serving at IGAR(South), C/O 99 APO.

¶70JC-354648H Nb Sub/ Cipher Biswajit Dutta, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Mano Ranjan Dutta, serving at HQ 21 Sector Assam Rifles,

¶71JC-355445L Nb Sub/ Cipher Krishna Borah, aged about 56 years, S/O Tankeswar Borah, serving at HQ IGAR(S), C/O 99 APO.

¶72JC-354267F Nb Sub/ Cipher Pankajaksha Kurup R, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Raghavan Pillai, serving at 16Assam Rifles C/O 99

¶73JC-354831L Nb Sub/ Cipher K Sushil Kumar Singha, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Sonamani Singha, serving at 14 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶74JC-354491N Nb Sub/ Cipher Ramendu Dey, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Ramesh Chandra Dey, serving at 45 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶75JC-355910MNb Sub/ Cipher Rajender Singh, aged about 60 years, S/O Late Ragbir Singh, serving at 34 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶76JC-355938MNb Sub/ Cipher N Sahadevan Pillai, aged about 58 years, S/O Late R Narayana Pillai, serving at ARTC & S, Dimapur, Nagaland.

¶77JC-356030H Nb Sub/ Cipher Md Atiullah Khan, aged about 56 years S/O Late Anwar Ali Khan, serving at 17 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶78JC-355106L Nb Sub/ Cipher Bachchan Singh, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Bhagirathi Singh, serving at 23 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶79JC-355731M Nb Sub/ Cipher Umesh Prasad Roy, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Mahindra Prasad Roy, serving at 3 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶80JC-355751A Nb Sub/ Cipher Y Churamani Singha, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Y Babahan Singh, serving at HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶81JC-355870W Nb Sub/ Cipher Naresh Kumar, aged about 59 years, S/O Bhopal Singh, Serving at 10 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶82JC-354214H Nb Sub/ Cipher Kumar R V, aged about 57 years, S/O Late P Raghavan Achary, serving at 45 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶83JC-354960L Nb Sub/ Cipher Madan Singh Rawat, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Umrao Singh Rawat, serving at 18 Assam Rifles,

¶84JC-355592N Nb Sub/ Cipher Suresh Kumar, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Sohan Singh 2 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶85JC-354962W Nb Sub/ Cipher Basant Ballabh Kapri, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Laxmi Datt Kapri, serving at 35 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶86JC-355477N Nb Sub/ Cipher Keshar Singh Negi, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Bishan Singh Negi, serving at 5 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶87JC-355626W Nb Sub/ Cipher Susobhanan R, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Rajan R, serving at ARSU, Shillong Meghalaya.

¶88JC-354561F Sub/ Cipher Swapan Kumar Singha, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Gourbabu Singh, serving at HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶89JC-355008L Nb Sub/ Cipher Ganesh Dutt, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Thalia Ram, serving at HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶90354864W WO/ Cipher Ashokan D, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Damodaran, serving at 13 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶91354754F Nb Sub/ Cipher M B Tamang, aged about 59 years, Late Dorjay Tamang, serving at ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶92355365N WO/ Cipher Karam Veer Singh, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Kannu Ram, serving at 44 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶93355263X WO/ Cipher Omprakash, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Pars Ram, serving at 25 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶94355212K WO/ Cipher Prabin Kumar Dhingia, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Shyam Chandra Dehingia, serving at 27 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶95355823Y Nb Sub/ Cipher Ramashray Yadav, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Bahadur Yadav, serving at 29 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶96356739LWO/ Cipher Gavendra Kumar, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Cokhey Lal, serving at ARSU, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶97357052N WO/ Cipher T Reghunathan, aged about 54 years, S/O Late N Thankappan, serving at 30 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶98356201K WO/ Cipher Bansh Narayan Singh, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Ram Sundar Singh, serving at 39 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶99356212W WO/ Cipher Md Alauddin Shaikh, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Abdul Kuddus, serving at 22 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶100356620F WO/ Cipher Rajesh Kumar Pandey, aged about 52 years, S/O Late Prabhakar Nath Pandey, serving at 39 Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶101356999 W WO/ Cipher K Venugopalan, aged about 54 years, S/O Ramakrishna Nair, serving at 23 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶102356435N WO/ Cipher Virendra Singh, aged about 50 years, S/O Nekase Singh, serving at 16 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶103357100H WO/ Cipher Param Jeet Singh, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Kunj Bihari Shakti, serving at 20 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶104356411K WO/ Cipher Kailash Chandra, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Gendan Lal, serving at HQ DGAR, Shillong, Meghalaya.

¶105357235K WO/ Cipher Dipak Sharma, aged about 52 years, S/O Moni Ram Sharma, serving at 37Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶106356560X WO/ Cipher Dinesh Kumar, aged about 55 years, S/O Rampal Singh, serving at 46 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶107356874Y WO/ Cipher Arjun Singh, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Chandra Singh, serving at 31 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶108356852A WO/ Cipher Bhawan Singh Negi, aged about 51 years, S/O Late Ishwar Singh Negi, serving at 43A ssam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶109356846M WO/ Cipher Trilok Singh, aged about 53 years, S/O Fate Singh, serving at 38 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶110356163Y WO/ Cipher Ranveer Singh, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Norang Ram, serving at 19 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶111356941Y WO/ Cipher Prakash Chandra Dwivedi, aged about 53 years, S/O Devi Datt, serving at 35 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶112356764K Ex WO/ Cipher Siya Ram, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Balbir Singh, Serving at ARSU, Shillong , Meghalaya.

¶113356845K WO/Cipher Yogendra Singh, aged about 54 years, S/O Ram Singh Rawat, serving at 23 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶114356939F WO/ Cipher Kundan Singh Rana, aged about 52 years, S/O Late Lal Singh, serving at 6 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶115356722XWO/Cipher Satyendra Singh, aged about 54 years, S/O Sujan Singh Rawat, serving at 38 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶116356138A WO/ Cipher Hari Ram, aged about 58 years, S/O Sodha Ram, serving at 11 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APOP.

¶117356830F WO/ Cipher Md Gulsunwar Khan, aged about 54 years, S/O Abdul Haque Khan, serving at 17 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶118357000X WO/ Cipher Basudev Bhatt, aged about 52 years, S/O Late Shree Krishna Bhatt, serving at 7 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶119356737A WO/ Cipher Dinesh Chandra, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Kanti Ballabh Josh, serving at 5 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶120356961M WO/ Cipher Ashok Kumar, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Dharam Singh, serving at 46 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO.

¶121356552Y WO/ Cipher Uma Kant Singh, aged about 54 years, S/O Late Sadhu Singh, serving at 24 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶122356186A WO/Cipher Bireswar Dey, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Mohipati Dey, serving at 24 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶123JC-355912X Nb Sub/ Cipher Rajendra Chand, aged about 58 years, S/O Late Gopal Chand, serving at HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶124356611A WO/ Cipher Asrarul Haque, aged about 54 years, S/O Abdul Bari, serving at 25 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶125356471Y WO/ Cipher Akrom Ali Borbhuiya, aged about 53 years, S/O Late Musaddar Ali, serving at A R T C & S, Dimapur, Nagaland.

¶126JC 354421P Nb Sub/Cipher Karthikeyan G, aged about 59 years, S/O Late M R Gopalan, serving at 43 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶127356756L WO/ Cipher S B Tiwari, aged about 55 years, S/O Late M D Tiwari, serving at ARTC&S, Dimapur, Nagaland.

¶128356750K WO/ Cipher Bhagwat Singh Parmar, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Ram Singh, serving at 19 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶129356745Y WO/ Cipher Kishan Singh, aged about 56 years, S/O Daulat Singh, serving at HQ IGAR(South), C/O 99 APO.

¶130354679H WO/ Cipher Sarku Gurung, aged about 57 years, S/O Late Lal bahadur Gurung, serving at 44 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶131356586M WO/ Cipher Biswanath Pattnaik, aged about 56 years, Late Laxman Kumar Pattnaik, serving at 36 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶132356545H WO/Cipher Omanakuttan V H, aged about 55 years, S/O Late Harisudan, serving at 4 Assam Rifles, C/O 99 APO.

¶133357041F WO/ Cipher Manbir Singh Negi, aged about 56 years, S/O Late Amar Singh Negi, serving at 27 Sector Assam Rifles, C/O 99

¶134353825L Hav/ Cipher (Now 2IC) Manbir Singh, aged about 59 years, S/O Late Sahab Ram Singh, serving at Assam Rifles T C Guwahati, Assam.

¶135AR 266M 2IC Upendra Kumar Pandey, aged about 59 years, S/O Sri Nanda Prasad Pandey, serving at ARTC &S, Dimapur, Nagaland. ………..Petitioners - Versus –

¶1The Union of India represented by the Secretary to The Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi-110001.

¶2The Director General of Assam Rifles, Head Quarter Directorate General Assam Rifles Shillong, Meghalaya-11

¶3The Brigadier (Pers), Head Quarter Mahanideshalya, Assam Rifle Shillong, Meghalaya-11. … Respondent(s)

Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice H. S. Thangkhiew, Judge

Appearance: For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. V. Kumar, Adv.

For the Respondent(s) : Dr. N. Mozika, DSGI with

Ms. A. Pradhan, Adv.

i) Whether approved for reporting in

Law journals etc.:

ii) Whether approved for publication in press:

JUDGMENT AND ORDER (ORAL)

1.

At the outset itself, Dr. N. Mozika, learned DSGI assisted by Ms. A. Pradhan, learned counsel for the respondents has informed the Court that the grievance of the writ petitioners has since been redressed. In this connection, the learned DSGI has placed before the Court a communication dated 25.04.2024, wherein it is indicated that the Board of Officers for screening of Cipher category personnel for grant of ACP and MACP as per their entitlements has already been convened, and as the number of personnel under consideration is large numbering 1050, 4(four) months' time is required to grant the said benefit. He therefore prays that the writ petition be closed allowing the respondents 4(four) months' time to complete the process.

¶2Mr. V. Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners has no objections to the said submission.

¶3Heard the learned counsels for the parties.

¶4In view of the submission made by the learned DSGI, this writ petition is disposed of at this stage itself placing reliance on the communication dated 25.04.2024, which is reproduced hereinbelow:- "TIME BOUND COURT CASE Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs Mahanideshalaya Assam Rifles

Directorate General Assam Rifles Shillong0793010. No. 1.11018/HCM/Law-2024/632 25 April, 2024 Dr. Nitesh Mozika, Advocate Deputy Solicitor General Hon'ble High Court of Meghalaya Shillong-01 E-mail: niteshmozika@gmail.com

WP(C) NO. 61/2024 FILED BY EX SUB (CIPH) MILESWAR NATH & 135 OTHERS VS UOI & 02 OTHERS BEFORE THE HON'BLE HIGH COURT OF MEGHALAYA, SHILLONG.

¶1Refer to the Court order dated 18 March 2024 in the subject matter.

¶2It is intimated that instructions on the subject matter received from dealing branch (Record Branch, Legal Cell) of this Directorate vide their service note dated 24 Apr 2024 is enclosed herewith for your perusal.

¶3In view of the above, it is requested to make appropriate submission in this regard before the Hon'ble Court and also suitable submission may be made for closure of the case.

¶4For your information and necessary action please.

Sd/- (Rahul Kumar) Major Officiating Chief Law Officer"

¶5Accordingly, this matter stands closed and disposed of, and the respondents are granted 4(four) months' time to complete the process as per the entitlements of the writ petitioners.

¶6A copy of the said communication dated 25.04.2024, is taken on board and made part of the record.

JUDGE

Meghalaya

01.05.2024 "V. Lyndem-PS"