Citation : 2023 Latest Caselaw 16351 MP
Judgement Date : 5 October, 2023
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH
AT INDORE
BEFORE
HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIJAY KUMAR SHUKLA
ON THE 5 th OF OCTOBER, 2023
REVIEW PETITION No. 932 of 2023
BETWEEN:-
REGISTRAR ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRY
FARMING DEPARTMENT COUNCIL (M.P. STATE
VETERINARY COUNCIL) BEHIND KAMDHENU
BHAWAN, VAISHALI NAGAR, BHOPAL (MADHYA
PRADESH)
.....PETITIONER
(BY SHRI SHREY RAJ SAXENA, LEARNED DY. ADVOCATE GENERAL)
AND
1. MANOJ NAGLE S/O SHRI RAM PRASAD NAGLE
OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED 113, PANDURANG
NAGAR, SHUJALPUR (MADHYA PRADESH)
2. RAJESH SONGARE S/O SHRI RAMESH CHANDRA
SONGARE OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED 38,
GRAM KUKRAS, POST NANASA, TEH.
KHATEGAON, DIST. DEWAS (MADHYA PRADESH)
3. SURAJ SINGH HARWAL S/O SHRI AJAY SINGH
OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED GRAM AND POST
BEDI KHATTALI, TEH. JOBAT, DIST. ALIRAJPUR
(MADHYA PRADESH)
4. VIRENDRA DAWAR S/O SHRI DINESH DAWAR
OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED GRAM BHAMI, OST
SALI, TEH. RAJPUR DIST. BARWANI (MADHYA
PRADESH)
5. NARENDRA SINGH CHOUHAN S/O SHRI LAKHAN
SINGH CHOUHAN OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED
35, PAKHARIYAPURA, TEH. GUNA, DIST. GUNA
(MADHYA PRADESH)
6. RAVI BANDIL S/O SHRI CHANDAN SINGH
OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED 28/435 PEEPALWALI
GALI GOPALPURA, DIST. MORENA (MADHYA
Signature Not Verified
Signed by: SOUMYA
RANJAN DALAI
Signing time: 05-10-2023
16:42:29
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PRADESH)
7. RAMESH CHANDRA PARASHAR S/O SHRI K
PARASHAR OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED E-50
GAYATRI VIHAR, DARPAN COLONY, THATIPUR
DIST. GWALIOR (MADHYA PRADESH)
8. STATE OF M.P. THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF
ANIMAL HUSBANDARY AND VETERINARY
SERVICE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY VALLABH
BHAWAN, BHOPAL (MADHYA PRADESH)
9. THE DIRECTOR ANIMAL HUSBANDARY AND
DAIRY FARMING DEPARTMENT KAMDHENU
BHAWAN, VAISHALI NAGAR, KOTRA
SULTANABAD BHOPAL (MADHYA PRADESH)
10. VICE CHANCELLOR NANA JI DESHMUCK
VETERINARY SCIENCE UNIVERSITY AADHARTAL
JABALPUR (MADHYA PRADESH)
11. CONTROLLER PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION
BOARD, BHOPAL CHAYAN BHAWAN, MAIN ROAD
NO. 1, CHINAR PARK (EAST) BHOPAL (MADHYA
PRADESH)
.....RESPONDENTS
(SHRI RANJEET SEN, LEARNED COUNSEL FOR THE RESPONDENT
[CAVEAT])
This petition coming on for admission this day, th e court passed the
following:
ORDER
The present review petition is filed for review/recall of the order dated 11.08.2023 passed in Writ Petition No. 19468/2019. The non- applicants/petitioners filed a writ petition WP No. 19468/2019 claiming following reliefs:-
(1) that the respondent nos.1, 2 and 3 may be directed to consider the candidature of the petitioner for enrolment of their names in the rolls of Madhya Pradesh State Veterinary Council.
(2) the petitioners be permitted to commence their profession as Veterinary Practitioner and do private practice to earn their Signature Not Verified Signed by: SOUMYA RANJAN DALAI Signing time: 05-10-2023 16:42:29
livelihood.
(3) the respondent may be further directed not to allow any person ho ld ing higher qualifications other than the Diploma Holder candidates for recruitment on the post of Assistant Veterinary Field Officer as per the AVFO Recruitment Rules, 2006.
2. Counsel for the non-applicants/petitioners in the writ petition confined only to the grievance that the candidate possessing higher qualification than the prescribed qualification be not permitted to participate in the selection for the post of Assistant Veterinary Field Officer. He further submitted that the said issue has already been decided by the Division Bench in the case of Sudheer Sharma vs. State of Madhya Pradesh in Writ Appeal No. 763/2021.
3. Counsel for the State also did not dispute the aforesaid submissions.
4. This Court on the basis of the aforesaid submissions and in the light of the submissions referring the judgment of Sudheer Sharma (supra), the petition was allowed partly so far the grievance of the petitioner in respect of participation of the candidates having higher qualification than the prescribed qualification.
5. Counsel for the applicants in review submits that no such issue has been decided in the case of Sudheer Sharma (supra). It has not been decided that the candidates having higher qualification than the minimum qualification cannot be allowed to participate in the selection in the said case. He further argued that in the advertisement, it was prescribed that candidates having higher
qualifications are also eligible. It is further submitted that due to inadvertence, a wrong concession was made on behalf of the government. Wrong concession on the point of law cannot operate as estoppel. The counsel for the petitioners submitted that the issue stands covered by the said judgment.
6. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and upon perusal of the Signature Not Verified Signed by: SOUMYA RANJAN DALAI Signing time: 05-10-2023 16:42:29
order passed by the Division Bench in the case of Sudheer Sharma (supra), it is manifest that there is no such order that the candidates having qualification more than the minimum qualification are restrained from participating in the selection.
7. In view of the aforesaid, the order passed by this Court dated 11.08.2023 in WP No. 19468/2019 is recalled.
8. Office is directed to list the original writ petition for hearing. CC as per rules.
(VIJAY KUMAR SHUKLA) JUDGE soumya
Signature Not Verified Signed by: SOUMYA RANJAN DALAI Signing time: 05-10-2023 16:42:29
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