2025:JHHC:15553 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI W.P(S) No. 2536 of 2025 ---- Birsa Toppo, aged about 54 years, Son of Buhurunga Oraon, Resident of Mandar Bazar Tanr, P.O. and P.S.- Mandar, District-Ranchi ......Petitioner VERSUS 1. The State of Jharkhand. 2. Additional Chief Secretary, Home Prisons and Disaster Management Department, Project Building, P.O and P.S.-Dhurwa, District-Ranchi 3. Inspector General of Prisons, Home Prison and Disaster Management Department, T.A. Division, P.O. and P.S.- Dhurwa, District-Ranchi. 4. The Superintendent of Jail, Dhanbad, P.O. and P.S.- Dhanbad, District-Dhanbad. 5. The Superintendent, Central Jail, Dumka, P.O, and P.S.- Dumka, District-Dumka. 6. The Central Jail Birsa Munda, Hotwar, Ranchi P.O.- Booty, P.S.-Hotwar, District-Ranchi. .....Respnodents ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN -- For the Petitioner : Mr. Rajendra Prasad Gupta, Advocate For the Respondents: Mr. Ratnesh Kumar, S.C(L&C)-I -- 02/11.06.2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. The writ petition has been preferred by the petitioner for the following reliefs: i) For quashing of the Memo No. 03/गृ० (का०) स्था० (अराज0)-30/2021-1627/ जेल, रााँची dated 03.07.2024 (Annexure-11) issued under the signature of the Inspector General of Prisons, Jharkhand, Ranchi (Respondent No. 3); whereby and whereunder the Petitioner has been demoted from Head Warden to Warden and his pay scale has been reduced ii) Further, for a direction upon the concerned respondents to dispose of the appeal preferred before Respondent No. 2 against the order dated 03.07.2024 passed by Inspector General of Prisons (Respondent No. 3). . 3. At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the appeal preferred by the petitioner before the 2nd Respondent against the order dated 03.07.2024 is still pending; as such, suffice it would be to direct the 2nd 2025:JHHC:15553 2 Respondent to dispose of the appeal. 4. Learned counsel for the respondents fairly submits that if the appeal has not been disposed of, the same will be done shortly. 5. Having regard to the limited submission of learned counsel for the petitioner and also in view of the fact that the appeal preferred by the petitioner is still pending before the 2nd Respondent; the instant writ application is hereby disposed of by directing the 2nd Respondent to dispose of the appeal, which has been preferred by the petitioner and also annexed as Annexure- 12, which clearly indicates that the same has been received on 03.08.2024; in accordance with law and applicable Rules and Regulations within a period of 4 months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that if the appellate authority wishes to have some query; then he may notice to this petitioner for the same. 6. Accordingly, the instant writ application stands disposed of in the manner indicated hereinabove. (Deepak Roshan, J.) Jk