MANISH CHOUDHURY
Anil Kumar Das S/o Late Parasu Ram Das – Appellant
Versus
Eastern And North Eastern Frontier Railway Co. Operative Bank Ltd. – Respondent
JUDGMENT AND ORDER :
By invoking the extra-ordinary and discretionary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has instituted the instant writ petition seeking inter alia a direction to the respondent authorities to refund a sum of Rs. 2,09,975/- along with interest to the petitioner from the period of deposit of the said amount till its realization and/or to deposit the loan amount by way of cheque/demand draft/cash in his Savings Account no. 20661145458 maintained at the State Bank of India, CGON, Gumi Branch Kamrup, Assam.
2. The necessary facts can be narrated, briefly, as follows : the petitioner is an employee of the North East Frontier Railway [NF Railway] and in the year 2016, he was serving as an Welder– II under the Senior Section Engineer [SSE]/P-Way/Chaygaon under the territorial jurisdiction of the Divisional Railway Manager [DRM][P], Rangia, NF Railway. The petitioner’s service records are maintained at and his salaries are being paid by the office of the DRM [P], Rangia, NF Railway i.e. the respondent no. 4. During the course of his service tenure, the petitioner in the year 2016, had applied to the Eastern & North East
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