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RANJAN GOGOI, I.A.ANSARI, H.N.SARMA
Jitendra Kalita – Appellant
Versus
State of Assam – Respondent
Ranjan Gogoi, J.
1. Two groups of mutually irreconcilable judicial verdicts, any one of which can be implemented at the peril of the other, has necessitated this reference to an Expanded Bench to decide which of the conflicting views should now hold the field. A post-cognizance realisation that the issue involved could have extensive ramification as one of the two views, that flows from a Division Bench Judgment in the case of Achyut Chandra Pathak and Ors. v. State of Assam and Ors. reported in (2000) 1 GLT 243, has been consistently applied arid followed, had led the Full Bench to direct that notices be issued to all such muster roll/work charged employees in all Departments of the State, who are awaiting regularisation as well as those who have been so regularised, in Order to ensure that they do not go unheard.
2. The facts necessary to understand the precise scope of the reference made to the Full Bench need to be amplified at the outset:
In the several engineering and works related departments of the State, a muster roll of workers is maintained in addition to the employees working in the regular cadre. Such workers are known as Muster Roll Workers. Also, in such enginee
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