Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur
Chet Ram Meena vs State Of Rajasthan (2023:Rj-Jd:40054) on 22 November, 2023
Author: Pushpendra Singh Bhati
Bench: Pushpendra Singh Bhati
[2023:RJ-JD:40054]
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
JODHPUR
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 17496/2023
1. Chet Ram Meena S/o Shri Ram Narayan Meena, Aged
About 53 Years, R/o Vpo Vaman Was, District Sawai
Madhopur.
2. Babu Lal Meena S/o Shri Kishori Lal, Aged About 56
Years, R/o Village Navajipura, Post Mocha, Tehsil
Gangapur City, District Sawaimadhopur.
3. Bharat Lal Meena S/o Shri Girji Prasad Meena, Aged
About 42 Years, R/o Vpo Chakeri Tehsil And District Sawai
Madhopur.
4. Mukesh Kumar Meena S/o Shri Kisan Lal, Aged About 50
Years, R/o Village Bawari Kheda, Post Hingora, Tehsil
Baswa, District Dausa.
5. Chet Ram Meena S/o Shri Kanhaiya Lal Meena, Aged
About, R/o Village Kustala, Post Kustala, Tehsil Sawai
Madhopur, District Sawai Madhopur.
----Petitioners
Versus
1. State Of Rajasthan, Through Its Principal Secretary,
Department Of Elementary Education, Government
Secretariat, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
2. The Director, Elementary Education, Rajasthan, Bikaner
3. The District Education Officer, Elementary Education,
Bundi.
4. The District Education Officer, Secondary Education,
Sawai Madhopur.
5. The District Education Officer, Elementary Education,
Sawai Madhopur.
----Respondents
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Vikram Singh for Mr. Ram Dev
Patolia.
For Respondent(s) :
HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI
Order
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22/11/2023
1. This writ petition has been filed by petitioners seeking relief
as indicated in the writ petition.
2. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the
issue raised in the present writ petition is squarely covered by
judgment of this Court in Manoj Khandelwal & Ors. v. State of
Rajasthan & Ors.: S.B.C.W.P. No. 7283/2014, decided on
16.07.2014 at Jaipur Bench and the said judgment has been
followed in Krishan Lal & Ors. v. The State of Rajasthan & Ors. :
S.B.C.W.P. No. 19179/2017, decided on 30.10.2017 at Jaipur
Bench, and therefore, the petitioners are also entitled to the same
relief as granted in the case of Manoj Khandelwal (supra) and
Krishan Lal (supra).
3. In view of the submissions made, the writ petition filed by
the petitioners is disposed of with the similar directions as given in
the case of Manoj Khandelwal (supra), which read as under:-
"This Court in Suman Bai and Another Vs. State
and Others - 2009 (1) WLC (Raj.) 381, held that
candidates in lower order of merit cannot become
entitled merely because they had approached court
earlier. Petitioners had a fresh cause of action for
approaching in such situation and their writ petition
not barred either as res judicata or as being him in
properly constituted. This directed the respondents to
treat petitioners senior to respondents, who were in
lower order of merit.
It is further contended in the writ petition that in
the matter of School Lecturers (English) in the same
Department, where appointments were delayed
because of the fault of the State authorities, the
candidates were accorded appointment from the date
the candidates stood lower in merit were appointed
and they have been granted all consequential benefits
of services.
The petitioners approached the respondents by
way of representations for extending them same
benefits of service which have been granted to the
candidates who stood lower in merit than the
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petitioners, but till date nothing has been done. Hence,
this writ petition on behalf of the petitioners for a
direction to the respondents to treat their appointment
from the date the candidates lower in merit, were
given, with all consequential benefits of service, such
as seniority, continuity of service, pay fixation, grant of
annual grade increments.
Having regard to the facts of the case, writ
petition is disposed of requiring the petitioners to make
a representation to respondent no.2 - Director,
Secondary Education, Bikaner, alongwith a copy of this
order, who shall, after verifying the facts stated above,
consider and decide the same by a speaking order
within a period of three months from the date of its
making, addressing the grievance of the petitioners for
extending them the relief as prayed for, as the
candidates, who stood lower in merit, are getting
benefit of higher pay, seniority, annual grade
increments and other service benefits including the
selection scales. If the respondent no.2 decides to
place the petitioners above in seniority than the
candidates who stood lower in merit, then the
petitioners would be entitled to all benefits of seniority
but they would be entitled only to notional benefits."
4. The order has been passed based on the submissions made in
the petition, the respondents would be free to examine the veracity
of the submissions made in the petition and only in case, the
averments made therein are found to be correct, the petitioner
would be entitled to the relief.
(DR.PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI), J.
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