IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.327 of 2006 SUNIL KUMAR & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 4. 5.5.2008 Writ petitioners-appellants, aggrieved by the order dated 6.10.2005 passed by a learned Single Judge in C.W.J.C.No.4168 of 2000 dismissing the writ application, have preferred this appeal under Clause X of the Letters Patent. Appellants’ appointment alongwith appointment of twenty four other persons were cancelled. Appellants challenged the same in the writ application, which has been dismissed by the impugned order. The learned Judge on consideration of the material on the record found that appellants’ entry into service was a back door entry, made without following any procedure known to law. The learned Judge further found that no advertisement was made nor any selection process was undertaken before making the appointment. Mr.Sanjeev Ranjan, appearing on behalf of the appellants does not dispute the aforesaid finding but submits that before cancelling the appointment of appellants, they ought to have been given notice and opportunity of hearing. In support of the submission, he has placed reliance on a Division Bench judgment of this Court in the case of Ram Krishna Dubey vs. The State of Bihar & Ors. [2008(1) PLJR 841]. We do not find any substance in the submission of 2 the learned Counsel. As the appointment of the appellants was illegal and made without following any procedure known to law and the authorities having come to that conclusion, we are of the opinion that no notice was required to be given in the facts of the present case. We do not find any merit in this appeal and it is dismissed accordingly. (Chandramauli Kr.Prasad, ACJ) (Jayanandan Singh, J.) Narendra/