Gurubaru Meher v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC(OA) No.3492 of 2013 Gurubaru Meher ....

Petitioner Mr.B.B. Mohanty, Advocate -versusState of Odisha & others ....

Opp.Parties Mr. S. Jena, Standing Counsel for the School and Mass Education Department

CORAM:

JUSTICE M.S.SAHOO

ORDER

17.03.2022 Order No.

1. 1.

This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

2.

The writ petition has been renumbered and registered before this Court on 12.08.2021 after being transferred, upon abolition of Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar.

3.

On perusal of the available order-sheet of the learned Tribunal, it is found that the matter was never taken up after 16.11.2018.

4.

The applicant was aged about 38 years when he had filed the original application in the year 2013 before the learned Tribunal challenging the select list prepared by the selection committee, represented through the opposite party no.2-Director Secondary Education, Odisha and opposite party no.3-District Education Officer, Kalahandi dated 03.12.2013.

5.

It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the entire selection process was marked

// 2 // with irregularities, for which the petitioner moved the learned Tribunal and long pendency, has not helped the cause of the petitioner, though he approached the learned Tribunal in time.

6.

It is further submitted that he has no up-to-date instruction to pursue the matter at present and the writ petition may be disposed of granting liberty to revive the same for any surviving cause of action.

7.

Learned Standing Counsel submits that since the challenge was to the selection process in the year 2013, nothing would survive for adjudication as of now. 8.

Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, the wit petition is disposed of due to lack of instructions from the petitioner granting liberty to revive the same within sixty days for any surviving cause of action. ( M.S.Sahoo) Judge Gs