Engineer-in-Chief, Public Health, Odisha v. Santosh Kumar Panda
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; W.A. No.1036 of 2023; intra-court writ appeal disposed on 21.10.2024; challenge to Single Judge's order dated 01.02.2022 in W.P.(C) No. 2594 of 2022; direction to consider representation (Annexure-2 series) and decide regularization per Umadevi, M.L. Keshari and Amarkanti Rai ((2015) 8 SCC 265); no illegality found, no interference; timeline for regularization decision extended by three weeks; delay in filing appeal noted; interlocutory applications disposed; appellants: Engineer-in-Chief, Public Health, Odisha (adv. Saswat Das, Addl. Government Advocate); respondent: Santosh Kumar Panda; bench: Chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh with Justice Savitri Ratho; matter taken up through Hybrid mode.
What did the court decide?
Writ appeal disposed of without interference in the Single Judge's order; the time allowed to the authorities for taking a decision on the petitioner's regularization extended by three weeks; interlocutory applications disposed of.