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PRANAV TRIVEDI
HARSHAD RAMAN PRAJAPATI – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF GUJARAT – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
PRANAV TRIVEDI, J.
1. The present petition is preferred assailing the decision of the Additional Director, Education Department, Sachivalay, Gandhinagar (hereinafter referred to as the “respondent”) for not giving appointment to the petitioner on the post of Junior Clerk, despite being selected to the said post.
2. The prayers as prayed in the writ petition are as under:
“7(A) Your Lordship may be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus and/or any other writ in the nature of the writ to quash and set aside the Order No. MVR/470/JUKA/M.10/2017/5045-48 dated 30.10.2017 passed by respondent no. 4 herein (Annexure-A) and further direct the respondents to give appointment to the petitioner to the said post.
(B) Pending admission, hearing and final disposal of the present petition, the Hon’ble Court may be pleased to stay the further operation, implementation and execution of the Order No. MVR/470/JUKA/M.10/2017/5045-48 dated 30.10.2017 passed by respondent no. 4 herein (Annexure-A).
(C) To pass such other further order as deemed fit in the facts and circumstances of the case.”
3. The brief facts leading to filing of the present writ petition are that the respondent through Gujarat Subor
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