ORDER :

Pramath Patnaik, J.

In the instant writ application, the petitioner has inter alia prayed for quashing memo dated 01.11.2012 whereby promotion granted to the petitioner on the post of Section Officer vide notification dated 30.07.2010 has been cancelled and further prayer has been made for direction upon the respondents to consider and promote the petitioner on the post of Section Officer with effective due date, from which persons junior to the petitioner have been promoted vide notification dated 01.11.2012.

2. The facts, which are necessary for adjudicating the matter, as delineated in writ application, in brief is that the petitioner was appointed as Assistant under Secretariat Services on 06.10.1990. By passage of time, in the year 2008 the State of Jharkhand published the provisional gradation list vide memo dated 23.10.2008, wherein the name of the petitioner figured at serial no. 178 and considering the seniority and unblemished service career, the Departmental Promotion Committee found the petitioner eligible for promotion on the post of Section Officer and accordingly he was promoted on the post of Section Officer vide memo dated 30.07.2010.

3. In the meanwhile, upon