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AKIL KURESHI
Sabita Debbarma D/o Late Kalidas Debbarma – Appellant
Versus
State of Tripura – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
AKIL KURESHI, J.
1. Petitioner has challenged a memorandum dated 12.06.2020 issued by the Secretary, Government of Tripura by which a departmental inquiry has been instituted against her. The charge leveled in the said memorandum is that the petitioner while serving as Upper Division Clerk in the Education department got the benefit of promotion to the post of Head Clerk as a Scheduled Tribe candidate being a member of Laskar community illegally by way of concealment of her actual caste status. It was alleged that the caste certificate dated 29.03.1976 issued in her favour was subsequently cancelled by the State Level Scrutiny Committee (SLSC, for short) by an order dated 07.11.2005 on the ground that she belongs to Laskar community.
2. Brief facts are as under:
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