Hira Lal Pandey v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No 274 of 2019 ====================================================== Hira Lal Pandey, S/o Late Bhuneshwar Pandey, a resident of Village and P.O.- Chandawa, P.S.-Nawadah, District-Bhojpur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar through the Principal secretary, Department of Revenue and Land Reforms, Bihar, Patna.

2.

The Director Consolidation, Bihar, Patna.

3.

The Deputy Director Consolidation, Bhojpur, Ara. 4.

The Consolidation Officer, Rajpur, Buxar.

... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr A B Ojha, Sr Advocate with Mr Nitesh Kumar, Advocate For the Respondent/s :

Mr S Raza Ahmad, AAG ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MADHURESH PRASAD ORAL ORDER 27-06-2019 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the respondent-State.

Claim made in the instant writ petition is for grant of benefits under the Assured Career Progression (for brevity, ACP) Scheme. Petitioner claims to be employee of the Consolidation Office. It is his submission that dues on account of benefits under ACP has been ascertained by the office. However, the benefits under the same have not been paid. Petitioner, for his claim, has approached the Consolidation Officer (respondent No 4). However, till date, no final decision has been taken in respect of the petitioner's claim.

Patna High Court CWJC No.274 of 2019(2) dt.27-06-2019 2/2 Under these circumstances, since decision has to be taken by the Consolidation Officer, the matter is being disposed of with a direction to take a final decision on the claim of the petitioner (Annexure 2 of the writ petition) by a reasoned and speaking order in accordance with law within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order.

(Madhuresh Prasad, J) M.E.H./- U