Jiten Gogoi v. the State of Assam and 4 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Gauhati High Court; WP(C)/8747/2019; Jiten Gogoi versus State of Assam and 4 Ors.; Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Assam; retrospective promotion; promotion to post of Superintendent w.e.f. 07.11.2020 (order dated 07.11.2020); promotion to Assistant Director FPD&CA dated 27.12.2023; retirement on superannuation w.e.f. 31.10.2024; writ petition rendered infructuous; petition closed; service and promotion matter; promotion from date juniors promoted; N. Unni Krishnan Nair, J.; order dated 10.06.2026; Government Advocate instructions marked 'X'.
What did the court decide?
Since the petitioner had already been granted promotion to the rank of Superintendent (w.e.f. 07.11.2020) and further promotion to the rank of Assistant Director (Notification dated 27.12.2023), and had not come up before the Court assailing those orders of promotion praying for retrospective effect, the relief sought in the writ petition had already been granted to him.