2025:JHHC:18377-DB 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI L.P.A. No. 152 of 2024 Vinay Kumar Verma, S/o Late Laxmi Kant Verma, R/o Village- Sahijana, PO & PS-Garhwa, District-Garhwa … Appellant Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand through its Secretary, Department of Law, Ranchi 2. The District & Sessions Judge-cum-Chairman, Appointment Committee, Garhwa Civil Court, Garhwa 3. Rajan Kumar, S/o Sri Krishna Murari Prasad, R/o Shivaji Maidan Road, Daltonganj 4. Registrar General, Jharkhand High Court, Ranchi ... … Respondents ----- CORAM: HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR ----- For the Appellant : Mr. Pratyush Shounikya, Advocate For the Respondent-State : Mr. Sahbaj Akhtar, AC to AAG-III ----- 09/09.07.2025 Heard counsel for the appellant. 2. This appeal is preferred against the judgment dated 18.01.2024 of the learned Single Judge in W.P.(S) No. 2795 of 2011. 3. The appellant had filed the said writ petition seeking a direction to the 2nd respondent to promote him from Class-IV to Class-III post and had also challenged the order no. 06/2011 dated 10.03.2011 issued by the respondent no. 2 by which the respondent no. 3 has been promoted from Grade-IV to Grade-III. 4. In the impugned order, the learned Single Judge had categorically recorded that the respondent no. 3 also possessed graduate qualification which he secured in the year 2001 much before the respondent no. 3 joined the service on 07.08.2002, though the said qualification was not recorded in the service book. It is also held by the learned Single Judge that in the written 2025:JHHC:18377-DB 2 examination conducted for promotion to Class-III post, the respondent no. 3 had secured the highest marks and he was rightly promoted. 5. Though counsel for the appellant seeks to contend that the said promotion is illegal because the qualification of graduation secured by the respondent no. 3 is not noted in the service book, we are unable to accept the said submission, since the other respondents have accepted that the 3rd respondent had secured graduation degree in 2001 itself much before the joining in service by him on 07.08.2002. 6. Therefore, we do not find any merit in the appeal and the same is accordingly dismissed. (M. S. Ramachandra Rao, C.J.) (Rajesh Shankar, J.) Manish/Ritesh