JUDGMENT :

Shree Chandrashekhar, J.

The State of Jharkhand through its Principal Secretary of the Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare and other Officers of the said Department and the Superintendent of Patliputra Medical College Hospital, Dhanbad (in short, the State of Jharkhand) have come together to challenge the order dated 27th September 2021 passed in WP(S) No. 1180 of 2019.

2. By the office order dated 28th February 2019, the respondent was relieved from the Department of Radiology at Patliputra Medical College and Hospital with a direction to handover the charge to the Head of the Department after obtaining a no dues certificate and tender his joining at the headquarters. This office order has been quashed by the writ Court by the aforesaid order dated 27th September 2021.

3. Briefly stated, pursuant to an advertisement issued on 7th October 1994 for appointment of the Resident Medical Officers in different Medical Colleges in the erstwhile State of Bihar the respondent was appointed as Resident Doctor on a tenure post. Before that, the respondent was working as Medical Officer at Primary Health Centre, Siswan since 11th March 1988. Later on, the Bihar Me