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2024 Supreme(Ori) 66

MURAHARI SRI RAMAN
Raghunath Sahu – Appellant
Versus
State of Odisha – Respondent


M/s. Kunal Kumar Swain, Soubhagya Chandra Dev Dash, Kousik Swain, Advocates, for the Petitioner; Mr. Rabi Narayan Mishra, Additional Government Advocate, for the Respondent.

Table of Content
1. background facts leading to the petition (Para 1 , 2)
2. court's scholarship on delay and laches (Para 4 , 7)
3. arguments from the petitioner relating to seniority and appointment (Para 5 , 6)
4. court's analysis and findings on merits and claims (Para 8 , 10)
5. consequences of misrepresentation and failure of proof (Para 11)
6. final conclusion and verdict of the court (Para 12)
7. the judgement distinguishes between timely remedies versus stale claims in administrative matters. (Para 13)
8. the court's role extends to preventing disruptions in established administrative hierarchies based on stale claims. (Para 14 , 15)

JUDGMENT

Murahari Sri Raman, J.

The challenge:

Assailing legality and propriety of the decision taken by the Collector, Balasore vide Order dated 09.02.2018 rejecting the claim for counting seniority in service by treating him as appointee of 1997, the petitioner has approached the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar by way of filing Original Application giving rise to O.A. No.435 of 2018 under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.

1.1. After abolition of the Orissa Administrative Tribunal by virtue of Ministry of Personnel, Publi

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