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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
ALOK KUMAR SINHA
Amod Kumar Singh S/o Sri Satyanarayan Singh – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar through the Principal Secretary, Department of Education, Government of Bihar, Patna – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Heard the parties.
2. The present writ application has been preferred seeking issuance of an appropriate writ, order, or direction for quashing the order dated 16.02.2018 passed by the Chairperson of the State Appellate Authority in Appeal No. 162/2017, whereby the appellate authority held that the marksheet submitted by the writ petitioner pertaining to the Intermediate Examination, issued by the then Bihar Intermediate Education Council, Patna, in the year 1994, was forged and fabricated. Consequent thereto, the appellate authority allowed the appeal preferred by the private respondent by setting aside the order dated 04.11.2011 passed by the District Teacher Employment Appellate Authority in Case No. 827/2008-2011 and further directed respondent no. 6, the Block Development Officer, Rajnagar, and respondent no. 7, the Block Education Officer, Rajnagar, to cancel the employment of the writ petitioner as Block Teacher and to consider appointing the private respondent in his place within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of the order (Annexure-8). The petitioner has also prayed for a declaration that the certificate/marksheet issued in his favour by the then
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