Kailash Chandra Pradhan v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC (OA) No.3139 of 2014 Kailash Chandra Pradhan ....

Petitioner Mr. K.C. Sahu, Advocate -versusState of Odisha & others ....

Opp.parties Mr.Pravat Kumar Panda, Standing Counsel for the School and Mass Education Department for O.P.No.1 to 4 For O.P. Nos.5 & 6- None

CORAM:

JUSTICE M.S.SAHOO

ORDER

12.04.2022 Order No.

01.

This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

The writ petition has been renumbered and registered before this Court on 17.08.2021 after being transferred, upon abolition of State Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar Bench, Bhubaneswar.

On perusal of the available order-sheet of the learned Tribunal, it is found that the matter was never taken-up/pursued after 16.112018.

The original application has been filed in the year 2014 when the applicant-petitioner was about 55 years of age challenging the promotion granted to the opposite party nos.5 & 6 to the Level-III in the Elementary Education Service from LevelIV when the petitioner working as Level-IV Headmaster. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has no up-to-date instruction to pursue the litigation at present on behalf of the petitioner.

Learned Standing Counsel submits that considering the nature of grievance raised in the writ petition that is the promotion granted in the year 2013 nothing would survive at

// 2 // present and more so the petitioner would have retired in the year about 2018-19 on attaining the age of superannuation. Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is disposed of due to lack of up-to-date instructions from the petitioner granting liberty to revive the same within sixty days for any surviving cause of action.

( M.S.Sahoo) Judge Gs