JUDGMENT

Sandeep Sharma, J. - Pursuant to advertisement issued in January, 2006 Annexure A-1, petitioner as well as respondent No.4 applied for the post of language Primary Assistant Teacher(hereinafter referred to as PAT) in the office of SDO, Sadar, District Bilaspur. Selection/interview committee constituted for the purpose of selection of Primary Assistant Teacher after having found the respondent No.4 eligible, selected him for the post in question and as such he gave his joining on 4th April, 2006 (Annexure A-3) at Government Primary School, Solda, District Bilaspur.

2. Petitioner after being declared unsuccessful laid challenge to the selection of respondent No.4, in aforesaid selection process, by way of Original Application No. 3136/2007 in erstwhile H.P. State Administrative Tribunal. Since the Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal came to be abolished, aforesaid original application having been filed by petitioner came to be transferred to this Court and accordingly same was re-registered as CWP(T) No.16072/2008. On 17th October, 2011 coordinate Bench of this Court while placing reliance on the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of this Court in Arjun Singh vs. Pawan