IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.396 of 2008 RAJESHWAR PD.MANDAL . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 2/ 18/11/2009 A counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondents affirmed by one Shri Ratan Kumar Bhagat, the Deputy Director, Agriculture (Extension) Bihar. The relief sought in the writ application is to be considered for promotion to the super time scale in the Bihar Agriculture Services, Category-1 with effect from 1.2.1995 on the basis that he has been granted Senior Selection Grade on 1.2.1992 and, therefore, had completed the “Kalawadhi” of three years. It is the specific case of the petitioner in paragraph-15 of the writ application referring to respondent Rameshwar Prasad Yadav and Bijendra Kishore Diwedi that his juniors have been granted such promotion on 16.1.1997 vide notification Memo. No.57, thus discriminating the petitioner who superannuated on 30.11.2003. The counter affidavit is by a senior officer. Strong reliance is placed on paragraph-7 of the same to urge that the case of the petitioner was under consideration and only after persons senior to him were granted the super time scale, shall the case of the petitioner be considered. Additional reliance is placed on the issue of eligibility to the super time scale in that context. 2 This Court has no hesitation in holding that the counter affidavit is cryptic and almost irresponsible. The deponent has treated proceedings before this Court with utmost casualness and disdain. It is apparent that he has not even bothered to go through the pleadings made in the writ application when he acknowledges his responsibility for the statement made in the counter affidavit that they were true to his knowledge derived from the records of the case. Yet he does not consider it necessary to deal with or to deny the specific assertion of the petitioner that two of his named juniors have been granted promotion, subjecting him to hostile discrimination. Let the respondent Agriculture Production Commissioner examine the grievance of the petitioner specifically in context of the allegations of discrimination and pass a reasoned and speaking order within a maximum period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order before him when he shall also be obliged to consider the conduct of the deponent to the counter affidavit on the administrative side also. The application stands disposed. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)