Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010031502025 2025:GAU-AS:1610 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : WP(C)/805/2025 BAHARUL ISLAM S/O- LATE AMIR UDDIN, R/O- RAJABARI, GRANT P/O. SOLOGURI, DIST- NAAGAON, PIN- 782123 ASSAM VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REP. BY THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVT. OF ASSAM, DEPTT. OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, DISPUR, GHY- 781006 2:THE SECRETARY TO THE ASSAM PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KHANAPARA GUWAHATI ASSAM PIN-781022. 3:THE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ASSAM KAHILIPARA GUWAHATI-781019 Advocate for the Petitioner : MS S A KHALIFA, MRS. K DEVI Advocate for the Respondent : SC, ELEM. EDU, BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MICHAEL ZOTHANKHUMA ORDER Date : 17.02.2025 Heard Ms. K. Devi, learned counsel for the petitioner, who submits that the impugned promotion order dated 01.02.2025, by which the petitioner has been Page No.# 2/3 promoted as Deputy Inspector of Schools, Dhemaji from the post of BEEO, Laharighat should be set aside. 2. The petitioner’s counsel submits that the promotion order requires the petitioner to move to an office, which is 340 KM away. The petitioner is suffering from various medical ailments and his elder daughter is going to appear in the HSLC examination, which has already started from 15.02.2025. Further, the petitioner is going to retire within less than one year. 3. The petitioner’s counsel submits that the petitioner has also written a representation dated 04.02.2025, praying that the petitioner should be exempted from being promoted to the post of Deputy Inspector of Schools, Dhemaji from the post of BEEO, Laharighat, Morigaon. She submits that the writ petition can be disposed of, if a direction is issued to the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Department of School Education, to dispose of the petitioner’s representation. 4. Mr. P. K. Bora, learned counsel for the respondent Nos. 1 & 3 submits that he has got no objection to the prayer made by the petitioner’s counsel. 5. In view of the consent of the parties, the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Department of School Education is directed to take a decision on the petitioner’s representation dated 04.02.2025, within a period of one month from today. The petitioner shall serve a copy of this order along with a copy of the writ petition to the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Department of School Education, within a period of one week from today. Page No.# 3/3 6. Till a decision is taken by the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Department of School Education, the impugned order dated 01.02.2025 shall be kept in abeyance. 7. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. JUDGE Comparing Assistant