Sri Alekha Chandra Mohanty v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC(OA) No. 1201 of 2012 Sri Alekha Chandra Mohanty ....

Petitioner Ms. Rasmita Routray, Advocate along with Mr. Niroj Kumar Mohapatra, Advocate -versusState of Odisha & others ....

Opp. Parties Mr. T.K. Praharaj, Standing Counsel for O.P. Nos.1 and 2 Mr. S.K. Das, Advocate for O.P. No.4 None for opposite parties 3 & 5

CORAM:

JUSTICE M.S. SAHOO Order No.

ORDER

22.02.2022 01.

1.

This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

RJ The writ petition has been registered before this Court on 7th August, 2021, the original application having been transferred from the learned State Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, Bhubaneswar upon its abolition.

2.

On perusal of the available order sheets of the learned Tribunal, it is indicated that the matter was never taken up after 31.03.2016.

3.

The original application was filed by the applicant/petitioner in the year 2012, when the applicant was aged about 51 years working as a Lecturer in Rachana Sarira Department in Government Ayurvedic College, seeking a direction for getting promotion.

4.

Learned counsel for the applicant/petitioner submits

// 2 // that in the meanwhile the petitioner has retired from service and nothing survives for adjudication in the present litigation.

It is further submitted that the writ petition may be allowed to be withdrawn with liberty to revive the same within sixty days for any surviving cause of action. 5.

Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of as withdrawn with liberty as prayed for.

(M.S. Sahoo) Judge