course of their employment.” Against the said order, the State had filed L.P.A. No. 214/2008 which has been dismissed by the Division Bench holding that such persons like the petitioners were entitled for grant of Grade-I Scale from the date of their respective appointments. Thereafter, the State also preferred S.L.P. (Civil) Nos. 5520-5522 of 2013 before the Hon’ble Supreme Court which also stood dismissed by order dated 08.03.2013 and as such, the judgment passed in Arun Sinha’s case had attained its finality. Inspite of the orders passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, when the petitioners of the aforesaid cases were not granted the benefits, they represented before the respondents for extending them the benefits as prayed for in the aforesaid writ petition but the respondents had not taken any decision and as such, the petitioners filed W.P.(S). No. 5746 of 2014 (Annexure5/A) and the Hon’ble Court vide its order dated 06.04.2015 disposed of the said writ petition holding therein that, “writ petition is being disposed of by directing the respondent No. 6, the Deputy Commissioner, Khunti and respondent No. 7 (D.S.E. Khunti), to arrive at an infirm decision in the matter in respect of other outstanding claim of the petitioners for promotion in Grade-IV within a reasonable time, preferably within a period of 10 weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.” In compliance of the order passed by this Court, petitioners were granted Grade-4 promotion from 15.09.2002, 15.09.2002 and 03.10.2002 respectively.
