Haranarayan Prasad Pati v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC(OA) No. 1245 of 2012 Haranarayan Prasad Pati and others ....

Petitioners None -versusState of Odisha and others .... Opposite Parties Mr. T.K.Praharaj, SC

CORAM:

JUSTICE M.S.SAHOO Order No.

ORDER

4.4.2022

2. 1. This matter is taken up by hybrid mode.

2. None appears for the petitioner when the matter is called.

3. On 22.2.2022 none had also appeared for the petitioner and after considering the matter in some detail, following order was passed :

. "This matter is taken up by hybrid mode. The writ petition is registered on 7th August, 2021 before this Court after the O.A. was transferred from the learned Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar upon its abolition.

On perusal of the available order sheets of the learned Tribunal it is indicated that the matter was never taken up after 1.3.2017.

The applicants/petitioners had filed the Original Application challenging the cut off date fixed in the eligibility criteria as per Govt.

of Odisha, Home Department Resolution dated 9.12.1998 (Annexure-5) fixing the criteria for promotion to the rank of Dy.

Superintendent of Police in Orissa Police Service (Grade-A) (Jr. Branch).

// 2 // To grant another opportunity, list on 4.4.2022."

4. Learned Standing Counsel submits that since the matter relates to a challenge to the cut off date fixed for promotion to the rank of DSP in the Odisha Police Service, Grade-A, nothing would survive for adjudication after lapse of almost ten years. It is further submitted that the resolution that was challenged before the learned Tribnal in the year 2012, was dated 9.12.1998 i.e. about 14 years after the resolution was published.

5. Having heard learned Standing Counsel, the matter is dismissed for non-prosecution.

( M.S.Sahoo) Judge dutta