IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10328 of 1992 RATNESHWAR PRASAD SINGH & ORS Versus STATE & ORS ----------- 6 31.7.2008 This writ application has been filed by the petitioners who are 18 in number claiming that they should be granted the same scale of pay as those persons who were working as regular employees of Shri Krishna Medical College Hospital (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Hospital’). The petitioners were working on daily wages in the said Hospital on different posts such as Cooks, Ward Srvants, Kitchen Servants and Helpers etc. It is said that they were paid for the jobs done by them from June, 1989 to June, 1992. The payment was stopped in June, 1992 apparently for the reason that the funds had not been released to pay to daily wage earners. The petitioners also claim for regularization on the ground that services of some persons working on daily wages were regularized by the District Magistrate. It is submitted that the District Magistrate through the Deputy Collector (Nazarat) had asked for the list of daily wages employees working in different offices of the District and it is said that the list of daily wage earners was provided to the District Magistrate, who regularized some of the daily wage persons who were appointed along with the petitioner. The statement aforesaid is rather vague in view of the fact that the petitioners have not disclosed the name of those persons who were appointed nor has given details regarding the letters, if any, that were issued from the 2 office of the District Magistrate. Therefore, as far as the second prayer of the petitioners is concerned, this Court is not inclined to pass any order or direction. Regarding the matter of payment of wages to the petitioners for the period between June, 1989 to June, 1992 it goes without saying that if the petitioners were working during the said period, they should definitely be paid the wages for which they are entitled. I, therefore, direct the respondents 2, 3 and 4 to look into the matter and take steps to make payment to the petitioners if they had worked for the aforesaid period. This writ application is partly allowed. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)