RANCHI, India, Oct. 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Sept. 25:
1. Heard.
2. The Appeal is preferred against the judgment dated 15.01.2024 passed in W.P.(S) No. 7487 of 2012 of the learned Single Judge, which was dismissed.
3. Aggrieved by the dismissal of his writ petition, the appellant-writ petitioner has filed the instant appeal.
4. The parties shall be referred to as they were before the learned writ Court.
5. The petitioner approached the writ Court with a prayer for quashing the order dated 05.01.2012 whereby and whereunder the respondent No.4 (Commandant, Jharkhand Armed Police) had imposed the punishment of forfeiture of two years' increment with cumulative effect. This order of punishment was thereafter affirmed by the appellate authority as well as the revisional authority.
6. The brief facts which led into filing of the instant appeal, are that the petitioner while undergoing training at Jharkhand Armed Police Force, 1st Battalion, Ranchi for the Senior Promotion Course (SPC), he applied for grant of leave which was forwarded to respondent No.4. Subsequently, the petitioner again gave an application for leave to the Incharge of Doranda Police Station and when the leave was not granted, the petitioner handed over the leave application to the media persons which led to news items being published in two Hindi daily newspapers i.e. Dainik Bhaskar, Ranchi edition dated 30th April, 2011 and the Ranchi edition of Prabhat Khabar dated 30th April, 2011.
*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=bzPoyUlszYLCUcCpirIpqKihtPWTqQdYEFUWwZQLVoMu9ELAbwsazsaYs2td0zhW&caseno=LPA/39/2025&cCode=1&cino=JHHC010289502024&state_code=7&appFlag=)
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