Manik Chandra Paramanik v. M/S Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. through Chairman Cum Managing Director
Case brief
What is this about?
Jharkhand High Court, Ranchi; W.P. (S) No. 696 of 2024; decided 01.05.2025; Deepak Roshan, J.; petitioner Manik Chandra Paramanik vs M/s Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), Area Personnel Manager and Project Officer, WJ Area, Moonidih, Dhanbad; subject: pay anomaly, arrear of salary from February 2001, basic pay fixation, monetary benefit of promotion from Category IV to V; writ application treated as representation before Project Officer; decision directed within 12 weeks; corrective payment and benefits within further eight weeks if anomaly found; disposed of without merits adjudication; no counter-affidavit filed; advocates: Kalyan Banerjee (petitioner), Arbind Kumar (respondents).
What did the court decide?
Writ application disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to serve the application on the 3rd respondent (Project Officer, WJ Area, Moonidih), who was to treat it as a representation and decide the pay-anomaly/arrear-salary claim in accordance with law and applicable company rules within 12 weeks; if an anomaly is found, necessary correction and further benefits were to be extended within a further eight weeks.