The Allahabad High Court has directed the authorities to take a decision within a month regarding the promotion of a jail warder to the post of Deputy Jailer in Bareilly Jail.
A single-judge bench of Justice Alok Mathur passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Sushil Kumar Dixit. The cCounsel for the petitioner submitted that the exercise for promotion to the post of Deputy Jailer is underway and the list of eligible candidates has been forwarded to the competent authority by means of a list dated October 10, 2021.
The counsel for the petitioner further submitted that petitioner’s name has not been included in the said list while the name of respondents, who is junior to the petitioner, has been included in the list for the said consideration.
The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has submitted representation in regard to the same to respondents but no response on the same was received by the petitioner so far and submits that in the meanwhile new proposition will be made and he wishes to submit appropriate representation in this regard. He confines his prayer for due consideration of his representation, expeditiously.
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“Accordingly, without commenting anything on the merits of the case, the petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents to consider and decide the representation of the petitioner dated January 11, 2021, expeditiously say within a period of one month from the date a copy of the order is produced before him, in accordance with law,”
-the court-ordered.