Sumati Patra v. Principal, Chief Conservator Of Forest

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC(OAC) No. 1953 of 2015 Sumati Patra ....

Petitioner Mr. Rabinarayan Nayak, Advocate -versusPrincipal, Chief Conservator of Forests, Odisha & others ....

Opp. Parties Mr. Pusparaj Bharadwaj, ASC for opposite parties

CORAM:

JUSTICE M.S. SAHOO Order No.

ORDER

29.06.2022 01.

1.

This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

RJ 2.

The writ petition has been registered before this Court on 17th December, 2021, after the original application was transferred from the learned State Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack upon its abolition.

4.

On perusal of the available order sheets of the learned Tribunal, it is indicated that the O.A. was taken up along with batch of cases. Notices were issued on 18.06.2015 and the matter was never taken up/pursued after 18.01.2018. 5.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has no up-to-date instruction from the petitioner at present to pursue the matter.

6.

Learned ASC referring to the instruction received from the office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, ACF (Legal) over phone submits that during pendency of the O.A. and subsequently writ petition before this Court, all the petitioners/applicants have got promotion to the next level and those were eligible for further promotion have also got the same. It is further submitted by the learned ASC that no cause of action would survive in the present O.A./writ petition.

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Having heard learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is disposed of for lack of up-to-date instruction from the petitioner to pursue the litigation at present granting liberty to revive the writ petition within sixty days for any surviving cause of action.

(M.S. Sahoo) Judge