Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 29: High Court has stayed the posting of Vivek Sharma as Director Animal Husbandry Jammu.
The significant order has been passed in a petition filed by Suresh Kumar Kohli and others seeking quashment of Govt Order No 163-JK (GAD) 2019 dated December 10, 2019 vide which Vivek Sharma has been posted as Director Animal Husbandry. The petitioners dubbed the order as illegal, arbitrary, unjustified and also contrary to Jammu & Kashmir Animal Husbandry (Gazetted) Service Recruitment Rules, 1988.
After hearing Advocate Sudershan Sharma for the petitioners, Justice Sanjeev Kumar observed, “the short grievance projected by the petitioners is that the post of Director Animal Husbandry is a post borne on the cadre of Jammu and Kashmir Animal Husbandry (Gazetted) Service Recruitment Rules constituted vide SRO No 359 dated 01.12.1988 read with SRO No 897 of 2019 and is provided to be filled up by way of selection from the officers in Class II with minimum experience of three years in that class”.
“The petitioners claim that though they are substantively holding the post of Veterinary Assistant Surgeons, but due to failure of the respondents to convene the regular DPCs, they have been further promoted in incharge capacity and are presently holding the charge of post of Joint Directors in the department. They, therefore, contend that they fall in the feeding cadre for promotion to the post of Director”, High Court said, adding “the petitioners further claim that KAS cadre officers cannot be posted against the post of Director Animal Husbandry”.
Accordingly, High Court issued notice to the respondents and in the meanwhile ordered that subject to objections from the other side and till next date of hearing, the order impugned insofar as it pertains to the posting of Vivek Sharma as Director Animal Husbandry Jammu, shall remain stayed.
“This order, however, shall not come in the way of respondents to fill up the post of Director from the eligible officers in the department on the basis of their seniority and eligibility”, the High Court added.
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