Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010134762022 2025:GAU-AS:498 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : WP(C)/5095/2021 MONOJ KUMAR DAS S/O- LT. MAHENDRA CHANDRA DAS @ MAHENDRA DAS VILL- SHASTRINAGAR P.O. BALADMARI DIST.- GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783121 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 6 ORS. THROUGH THE CHIEF SECY. TO THE GOVT. OF ASSAM DISPUR GHY-06 2:THE PRINCIPAL SECY. TO THE GOVT. OF ASSAM ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST DEPTT. DISPUR GHY-06 3:THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF CONSERVATOR OF FORETS AND HOFF ASSAM ARANYA BHAWAN PANJABARI GHY-37 4:THE DY. COMMISSIONER GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783101 (CHAIRPERSON DISTRICT LEVEL COMMITTEE GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783101 Page No.# 2/3 5:THE DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER GOALPARA DIVISION (DEPTT. OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS ASSAM) GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783121 6:SANJAY DEY S/O- LT. KAMAL CHANDRA DEY NAYAPARA WARD NO.-4 P.O. GOALPARA P.S. GOALPARA DIST.- GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783121 7:KUSHAL CH. DAS S/O- LT. BHABENDRA NR. DAS VILL- BANIAPARA WARD NO.-11 P.O./P.S. GOALPARA DIST.- GOALPARA ASSAM PIN- 783121 ------------ Advocate for : MR. P J PHUKAN Advocate for : SC FOREST appearing for THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 6 ORS. BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR ORDER Date : 20.01.2025 Heard Mr. P. J. Phukan, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam, assisted by Mr. R. Dhar, learned Addl. Senior Government Advocate, appearing on behalf of the State Respondents. Mr. Phukan, learned counsel for the petitioner, on instructions, has submitted that he be permitted to withdraw the present writ petition with liberty Page No.# 3/3 to the petitioner to present a challenge to the Office Memorandum, dated 18.09.2024, which has, in effect, withdrawn the scheme of compassionate appointment in the State Government services. The above prayer has not been objected to by Mr. Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam. However, Mr. Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam, has submitted that the issue as to whether the claim of the petitioner for appointment on compassionate grounds, would mandate a direction for consideration from this Court, is required to be examined in view of the decision rendered by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of State of W.B. v. Debabrata Tiwari & ors.[reported in (2023) SCC Online SC 219]. In view of the above position, the present writ petition is permitted to be withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to challenge the provisions of the Office Memorandum, dated 18.09.2024. However, the issue of maintainability of any such writ petition filed, is kept open, and it would be permissible for the respondents to raise the same in the event of filing of any fresh writ petition by the petitioner, herein. With the above observations and liberty, as prayed for; the present writ petition stands dismissed on withdrawal. JUDGE Comparing Assistant