Rajesh Kumar Soni Vs State of Chhattisgarh — Chhattisgarh HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

Rajesh Kumar Soni Vs State of Chhattisgarh — Chhattisgarh HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Petitioners permitted to submit a representation raising their grievance before Respondent No. 5 (CEO, Zila Panchayat, Jashpur); Respondent No. 5 to consider and decide it in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within 04 months of receipt of the Court's order; no adjudication on the merits of the seniority/gradation-list grievance.

Issue for consideration

Whether the respondent authorities should be directed by mandamus to correct the petitioners' gradation list, reckon their seniority from the date of appointment, and grant consequential benefits such as promotion to higher posts.

Court's answer

Without commenting on the merits, the Court found it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition at this stage, permitting the petitioners to submit a representation raising their grievance before Respondent No. 5.

Ratio / Principle

In the event the petitioners submit such a representation, Respondent No. 5 (Chief Executive Officer, Zila Panchayat, Jashpur) shall consider and take a decision on it in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a further period of 04 months from receipt of the Court's order.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Service - Seniority/Gradation list - Five Lecturers (L.B.), T-Cadre, serving in Government schools in District Surguja (C.G.) sought a writ of mandamus to correct their gradation list, reckon seniority from the date of appointment, and grant consequential benefits such as promotion. After arguments, counsel for the petitioners confined the prayer to submitting a representation before Respondent No. 5 (CEO, Zila Panchayat, Jashpur) with a time-bound decision; State counsel raised no objection. Without expressing any view on the merits, the High Court (Parth Prateem Sahu, J., 09.04.2026, WPS No. 3129 of 2026) disposed of the writ petition, granting liberty to move such a representation and directing Respondent No. 5 to consider and decide it in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a further period of 04 months from receipt of the Court's order.

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2026:CGHC:16304

NAFR

HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR

WPS No. 3129 of 2026

1 - Rajesh Kumar Soni S/o Naresh Prasad Soni Aged About 48 Years Presently Working As Lecutrer (L.B.) T- Cadre, Govt. Higher Secondary School Bakirma, Block Ambikapur, District Surguja (C.G.)

2 - Hemant Kumar Gupta S/o Shri Beer Bahadur Ram Gupta Aged About 49 Years Presently Working As Lecutrer (L.B.) T- Cadre, Govt. Higher Secondary School Mendrakala, Block Ambikapur, District Surguja (C.G.)

3 - Satish Pandey S/o Shri Shankar Prasad Pandey Aged About 48 Years Presently Working As Lecutrer (L.B.) T- Cadre, Govt. High School Bafouli, Block Ambikapur, District Surguja (C.G.)

4 - Anchal Kumar Sinha S/o Late Shiv Shankar Prasad Sinha Aged About 53 Years Presently Working As Lecutrer (L.B.) T- Cadre, Swami Atmanand Govt. English School Keshavpur, Ambikapur, District Surguja (C.G.)

5 - Evangelista M Deepti Tirkey W/o Ashisan Tirkey Aged About 44 Years Presently Working As Lecutrer (L.B.) T- Cadre, Govt. Higher Secondary School Lapatra, Block Lakhanpur, District Surguja (C.G.)

... Petitioners

Versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Panchayat And Rural Development Department, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar, District Raipur (C.G.)

2 - Secretary Education Department, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar, District Raipur (C.G.)

3 - Director Public Instructions Indrawati Bhawan, Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar, District Raipur (C.G.)

4 - Divisional Joint Director Education, Sarguja Division, Ambikapur, District Surguja (C.G.)

5 - Chief Executive Officer Zila Panchayat Jashpur, District Jashpur (C.G.)

... Respondent(s)

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For Petitioners	: Mr.C.JayantK. Rao,Advocate
For Respondents	: Mr. Gary Mukhopadhyay, Additional
	A.G.

HON'BLE SHRI PARTH PRATEEM SAHU, JUDGE

ORDER ON BOARD

09.04.2026

1. Petitioners have filed this writ petition seeking following reliefs:

“10.1. That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondent authorities to correct the gradation list of the petitioners and consider the petitioners seniority from the date of appointment and provide further consequential benefits like promotion to higher post.

10.2. That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to grant any other relief as it may deems fit and appropriate.”

2. After arguing for sometime, learned counsel for petitioners submits that petitioners may be permitted to to submit representation before Respondent No. 5 and direction be issued to the concerned authority to take decision on representation of petitioners at the earliest within specified time frame.

3. Learned counsel for State submits that in view of limited prayer made by learned counsel for petitioners, he is having no objection.

4. On due consideration of submission made by learned counsel for respective parties, without commenting any thing on the merits of the case, I find it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition at this stage permitting petitioners to submit representation before Respondent No. 5 raising their grievance and in the event petitioners submits such a representation, Respondent No. 5 shall consider and take decision on the representation of petitioners, in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a further period of 04 months from the date of receipt of the order passed by this Court.

5. With the aforesaid observation and direction, this writ petition is disposed of.

Sd/-

( Parth Prateem Sahu ) JUDGE

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