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CASE NO.:

Appeal (civil) 5064 of 2007

PETITIONER:

State of Haryana & Ors

RESPONDENT:

Navneet Verma

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 31/10/2007

BENCH:

Tarun Chatterjee & P. Sathasivam

JUDGMENT:

JUDGMENT

(Arising out of SLP (C) No. 23499 OF 2004)

P. Sathasivam, J.

1) Leave granted.

2) Whether the abolition of the post has been done in

good faith or whether it is a camouflage to cover up and

conceal the real intention of weeding out the respondent

from service is the only question to be decided in this

appeal.

BRIEF FACTS:

3) The respondent-herein was appointed as Accounts

Executive in the Haryana Bureau of Pubic Enterprises (in

short \021the HBPE\022) on 16.07.1993. While continuing so, his

services were terminated on 31.12.1994 on the ground that

the post of Accounts Executive has been abolished.

According to the respondent-herein, the third appellant

applied for the post of Financial Adviser. Even though she

did not fulfill the prescribed requirement of three years

experience after doing chartered accountancy, she had been

appointed as Financial Adviser and the respondent-herein

who