JUDGEMENT
J.C.S.RAWAT, J. -
(1.) THIS writ application has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by the petitioner for the following relief(s);
(a) To issue an appropriate writ including a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the Notification No. 1856 dated 13.10.08 and order dated 14.10.08 whereby and whereunder the petitioner services has been returned back to BISCOMAUN, Patna and the petitioner has been relieved w.e.f. 13.10.08 from the Government Polytechnic, Ranchi.
(b) To issue an appropriate writ including a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to absorb the services of the petitioner as lecturer in Govt. Polytechnic College, Ranchi in the Science and Technology Department or in the Science and Technology Department, Govt. of Jharkhand.
(c) To grant of such other reliefs as the petitioner deemed to be entitled.
(2.) IN nutshell, the petitioner's case is that the petitioner was appointed as an Assistant Engineer in BISCOMAUN, the then State of Bihar and in a high level meeting reviewed the
recommendation made by the previous Development Commissioner on different point to overcome
the crisis of BISCOMAUN and thus a detailed report for rehabilitation of BISCOMAUN was
prepared and the Joint Secretary, Govt. of Bihar requested the Managing Director, BISCOMAUN
to declare the staff surplus to meet the financial crunch of respondent No. 8. It was decided to
send the staff for appointment with respondent No. 6 to the different Government Departments. In
pursuance to that, a letter was also received to the Government Polytechnic, Ranchi and the
Govt. Polytechnic Ranchi also sent a requisition for the post of Lecturer along with other posts on
deputation to the respondent No. 6. The petitioner, pursuant to the said letter applied in the Govt.
Polytechnic Ranchi as lecturer in Civil Engineering and he was selected for deputation in the said
Polytechnic as Lecturer in the year 1994 and the services of the petitioner was taken by the Govt.
Polytechnic, Ranchi. Many other employees of different categories were also sent to the different
departments of the Government. The petitioner had continued for a long time in the Govt.
Polytechnic, Ranchi as lecturer. Now the Government of Bihar has decided to send back the
petitioner to the parent department. Similarly situated persons, Ramashraya Singh and others were
deputed in the Science and Technology Department from the Corporation and the department on
the ground of apprehended technical objection of Indian Council of Technical Education has
refused to permanently absorb them. However, a writ petitioner was allowed by the High Court of
Patna, Bihar. Thereafter, a writ petition was filed by the petitioner before the Patna High Court,
which was numbered as CWJC No. 7642 of 2000 before the Court for seeking the relief of
absorption along with the other relief(s). In the said writ petition, the Hon'ble Patna High
Court by interim order dated 17.8.2000 restrained the respondents from repatriating the petitioner
back to the respondent No. 6 with further observation that in the meantime, it would be open to
the respondents to absorb the petitioner in the service of the State. Thereafter, the State of
Jharkhand was carved out from the State of Bihar by virtue of Bihar Reorganization Act, 2000. The
said writ petition was heard by the Patna High Court and on 26.7.2006 and the same was
dismissed with observation that in case the parent department of the petitioners' i.e.
respondent No. 6 is liquidated, the petitioners may move the appropriate Government for their
absorption in any of the Department of the State of Bihar in accordance with law. Against the said
order, an appeal being LPA No. 620/06 was preferred before the Patna High Court and by order
dated 5.9.08 the said LPA was disposed of on the ground that the LPA is not maintainable and it
will be open to the appellant to raise his grievance, if any, before the Jharkhand High Court,
Ranchi. Thereafter, this writ petition has been preferred by the petitioner before this Court.
I heard the learned Counsel for the parties and perused the record.
(3.) THE petitioner has filed the copies of the judgments of Patna High Court of different writ petitions of the petitioner or other similarly situated persons, out of which, some of the writ petitions were
allowed and against which, the L.P.As. are pending and some of the writ petitions were dismissed
and L.P.As. are pending before Patna High Court.;
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