IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.1621 of 2009 BISHESHWAR DUTT SINGH, son of Late Shri Kalika Singh, resident of House No. C/81, Prabhu Nath Nagar, North of Sheo Mandir, P.S. Mofasil Chapra, District Chapra Versus 1. The Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, Sone Bhawan, Bir Chand Patel Path, Patna-1, through its Managing Director, namely, Dr. Rana Awadhesh 2. Dr. Rana Awadhesh, the Managing Director, Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, Sone Bhawan, Bir Chand Patel Path, Patna-1 3. The Chief Administration, Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, Sone Bhawan, Bir Chand Patel Path, Patna- 1,namely, Mrs. Bimla Prasad 4. Mr. Ashutosh Kumar, the District Manager, Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, Samastipur 5. The State of Bihar, through the Secretary Department of Food and Consumer Protection, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 04/ 21.04.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). Petitioner has filed the contempt application alleging non- compliance of the orders of this Court dated 3.7.2008, Annexure-1 to this application, against which Corporation has filed L.P.A. with a stay petition. L.P.A. and the stay petition have not yet been numbered, but are likely to be numbered very soon and placed for admission in the next week or soon thereafter. It is further submitted on behalf of the Corporation that similar point about applicability of the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court rendered in the case of U.P. Jal Nigam and another Vrs. Jaswant Singh and another, reported in (2006) 11 S.C.C. 464 to the case of the petitioner is also raised in the connected L.P.A. No. 850 of 2009 in which stay of the orders of the Hon’ble Single Judge - 2 - directing payment of arrears of salary to retired employees who have crossed 60 years and filed the writ application thereafter, has been granted. Compliance of the orders of this Court dated 3.7.2008, Annexure-1 shall be subject to the result of L.P.A. No. 850 of 2009. In view of the statement made by the counsel for the Corporation, the contempt application is disposed of with direction to the Corporation to comply with the orders of this Court dated 3.7.2008, Annexure-1 in the light of the orders of the Division Bench in L.P.A. No. 850 of 2009. Arjun/ (V.N. Sinha, J.)