JUDGMENT :

1. This writ petition has been filed against the inordinate delay and harassment caused to the petitioner by the respondent in providing employment to the petitioner under the land loser scheme of the respondent in which, a provision had been made for providing employment to the land loser or nominee of the land loser if the lands were either used for extraction of coal and/or purchased or acquired by the coal industries for mining operations.

2. The case of the petitioner was that his grandfather, namely, Sk. Kubed Maji was the recorded owner of Dag Nos.1936, 1925 and 1927, mouza- Pariharpur, J.L No.23, Police Station-Jamuria, Sub-Registery office-Raniganj. The Eastern Coalfields Limited (hereinafter referred to as the ECL) a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, purchased portions of the above plots of lands from Sk. Kubed Maji under different deeds, measuring about 1.05 acres. According to the petitioners, after the purchase of the land the competent authority of the ECL approved the employment in favour of his grandfather, Kubed Maji, since deceased, and the approval o