I. A. ANSARI

This is an appeal against order, dated 02.07.2014, passed, in CWJC No. 22327 of 2013, by a learned single Judge of this Court, whereby the learned single Judge dismissed the writ petition on the grounds that (i) no assistance was rendered, in the writ proceedings, on behalf of the writ petitioner-appellant herein and (ii) the writ petition lacks territorial jurisdiction as no cause of action had arisen within the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of this Court.

2. Aggrieved by the dismissal of his writ petition, this appeal has been preferred by the writ petitioner.

3. The material facts, giving rise to the writ petition, may, in brief, be set out as under:

(i) The State Collieries, spread over several States of India, was earlier run directly by the Ministry of Production, Government of India, and Kargali Collieries, in the district of Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), was one of the units of the State Collieries of the Government of India within the territorial limits of the erstwhile State of Bihar.

(ii) The writ petitioner was appointed, at Kargali (Hazaribagh), as Assistant Law Officer by the then Ministry of Production, Government of India, with effect from