Anil Kumar Paldiya v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur; WPS No. 1284 of 2023 (neutral citation 2025:CGHC:39330); decided 06/08/2025 by Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad. Petitioners: Anil Kumar Paldiya, Satyanarayan Patidar, Chandrashekhar Shivhare, Rajendra Prasad Dubey — Assistant Engineers, Water Resources Department. Respondents: State of Chhattisgarh (Secretary, Water Resource Department), Engineer-In-Chief and Chief Engineer, Water Resource Department. Subject: prayer to convene DPC, complete DPC proceedings for 2022 and consider promotion from Assistant Engineer to Executive Engineer in a time bound manner. Counsel: Tanmay Thomas for petitioners; Ankur Kashyap, Dy. G.A. for State. Outcome: petition dismissed as infructuous after counsel for petitioners submitted it was rendered infructuous with the afflux of time and State counsel concurred; no statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
The present writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous.