Ajay Kumar Das v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC(OAC) No.1938 of 2013 Ajay Kumar Das ....

Petitioner Miss Laxmi Pradhan along with Mr.A.K.Biswal, 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 02.12.2021 after being transferred, upon abolition of Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack.

3.

On perusal of the available order-sheet of the learned Tribunal, it is found that the matter was never taken up after 30.03.2017.

4.

The original application was filed in the year 2013 before the learned Tribunal by the applicant, who was working as Sikshya Sahayak in Podadiha Govt. M.E. School under the Kaptipada Block in the district of Mayurbhanj, as indicated by the petitioner in the cause title, inter alia, seeking a direction to set aside his transfer order dated 22.06.2013.

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It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the matter has been rendered infructuous by efflux of time.

6.

It is submitted by the learned Standing Counsel for the School and Mass Education Department that since the challenge was to the order of transfer, nothing would survive for adjudication after lapse of nine years. 7.

Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous.

( M.S.Sahoo) Judge Gs