The court asserts the need for equal treatment in administrative decisions impacting staff promotions and service allocation.

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER

7 19-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents.

2. The petitioner has filed the instant application for the following relief(s) :

“1. That this writ application is being filed for setting aside the resolution dated 04.02.2015 passed by the committee headed by Secretary, Road Construction Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna as well as for direction to the authorities to give equal treatment to the petitioner which are being given to the other engineers of Road Construction Department since the date they have been given such benefit and/or for any other order or orders may be passed in the fact and circumstances of the case.”

3. Subsequently the petitioner filed I.A. no.1 of 2021 praying for addition of some reliefs as stated in paragraph no.1 of the application, which are reproduced herein below :-

“i. Issuance of an order, direction or a writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the Notification No. 1 / सथा० 19/2007 2777 (S) dated 25.03.2015 issued by the Additional Secretary, Road Construction Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna (Respondent No. 4) whereby petitioner's claim for the allocation of his services to the Road Construction Department has been rejected in the following terms:-

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दारा अपना बवकलप पथ बनमारण बवभाग बदया गया है। बवभागीय संकलप संखया 6115 (एस०) बदनांक 29.07.2013 के कंबडका 5 (क) के आलोक मे इन आवेदनो को असवीकृत बकया जाता है। "

A true copy of Notification No. 1/ सथा० -19/2007 2777 (S) dated 25.03.2015 is annexed herewith as Annexure-14 to this Interlocutory Application.

ii. Issuance of an order, direction or a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the Respondents concerned to shift back the effective date of promotion to the petitioner on the post of Executive Engineer from 19.01.2018 to 24.10.2016, the day persons junior to the petitioner namely Mr. Santosh Kumar Bhatt, Mr.

Nikhilesh Kumar Sinha, Mr. Nasim Akthar Ansari, Mr. Arun Kumar Singh, Mr. Ghanshyam Mandal, Mr. Prem Nath, Syed Mumtaj Ahmad, Md. Rehan Haider and Mr. Ram Suresh Rai have been granted promotion on the post of Executive Engineer, vide Annexure - 11 at page nos. 77-78 to the main writ petition. And in turn the Respondents concerned may be suitably directed to grant all due benefits to the petitioner on the basis of the shifting back the date of his promotion on the post of Executive Engineer from

19.01.2018 to 24.10.2016.

iii. To hold and declare that since there have been no difference in between the case of the petitioner and the case of Reji Singh (Respondent No. 6), as such, the petitioner may also be granted identical and similar benefits as has been granted to said Respondent No. 6 in the matter of allocation of cadre to the Road Construction Department.

iv. For grant of any other additional relief (s) to which the petitioner may be found entitled to in the facts and circumstances of this case.”

4. It is fairly submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during pendency of the instant application, the petitioner having retired on 31.5.2024, so far as the additional relief (i) is concerned, the same being with respect to transfer and