Case brief
What is this about?
Orissa High Court, WP(C) No.23997 of 2025, disposed 09.09.2025 by Dixit Krishna Shripad J. Eight-week mandamus-type direction to State of Odisha (OPs) to decide petitioner Sabita Kumari Pattnaik's representation dated 16.05.2025 seeking antedated promotion to Jr SES parity with Dilip Kumar Badapanda, Kiran Chandra Mishra, Kartik Dash and Sudhansu Kumar Choudhury, per OAT order in O.A. No. 3885(C) of 2012 (batch) affirmed in SLP(C) Diary No. 16580/2024 and 16586/2024 (25.10.2024). Contentions kept open; documents may be called but delay not permitted; no costs; web copy authentic.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of: opposite parties to take a decision on the representation dated 16.05.2025 within eight weeks and communicate it to the petitioner in writing; liberty to the opposite parties to solicit information/documents for due consideration subject to no delay being brooked; all contentions kept open; no costs.