Ignatius Ekka And ORS. v. State Of Chhattisgarh And ORS.

NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR Writ Petition No.1654 of 2006

1. Ignatius Ekka, aged 44 years, S/o Shri Rafayel Ekka, Working as Sub Inspector (M), At Police Head Quarter, Raipur

2. Rambabu Raghuvanshi, aged 49 years, S/o Late Shri B.P. Raghuvanshi, Working as Assistant Sub Inspector (M) of Police Headquarter, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.)

3. Mehboob Khan, aged 55 years, S/o Late Shri Saifullah Khan, Working as Assistant Sub Inspector (M), At Police Headquarter, Raipur

4. Livnus Tigga, aged 47 years, S/o Late Shri Pius Tigga, Working as Assistant Sub Inspector (M), At Police Headquarter, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.)

5. Prakash Deshmukh, aged 25 years, S/o Late Onkar Rao Deshmukh, Working as Assistant Sub Inspector (M), At Police Headquarter, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.)

6. Ranglal Tandey, aged 57 years, S/o Late Dallu Pal Tandey, Working as Assistant Sub Inspector (M), At Police Headquarter, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.) ---- Petitioners

Versus

1. State of Chhattisgarh, Through the Secretary, Home & Police Department, Mantralya, D.K.S. Bhawan, Raipur.

2. Director General of Police, Chhattisgarh, Police Headquarter, Raipur.

3. Senior Superintendent of Police, District Raipur (C.G.) ---- Respondents For Petitioners:

Mr. R.K. Kesharwani, Advocate.

For Respondents/State: - Mr. Aditya Sharma, Panel Lawyer.

Hon'ble Shri Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal Order On Board 02/11/2017

1. Counsel for the parties would submit that the petitioners' case is covered by the decision rendered by a coordinate Bench of this Court in W.P.(S)No.4523/2014 (Francis Xavier Back and others v. State of

Chhattisgarh and others) decided on 3-7-2015 which has been disposed of in following terms: - • The Department of Home, Government of Chhattisgarh shall constitute a committee consisting of senior IPC Officers not below the rank of ADGP and a senior officer of the Finance Department not below the rank of Additional Secretary.

• The petitioners shall submit a representation before the said committee within a period of one month from today.

• The committee shall examine the issue as to whether the respective cases of the petitioners are similar to Abdul Nawab Khan (Supra). If the petitioners are similar to those petitioners, they shall be entitled to all such benefits which are admissible to those petitioners on the subject issue.

2. In view of the aforesaid submissions made by counsel for the parties, the writ petition is finally disposed of in terms of para 10 of Francis Xavier Back's case (supra). No order as to cost(s). Sd/- (Sanjay K. Agrawal) Judge Soma