IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5464 of 2008 DASHRATH SAH & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.10947 of 2009 RAJESH KUMAR YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.11971 of 2009 DINESH KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.12575 of 2009 SANJAY KUMAR SHARMA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.13240 of 2009 BINOD KUMAR MISHRA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14106 of 2009 MAHESH LAL DEV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14354 of 2009 BHUWNESHWAR DAS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14395 of 2009 MAHESH KUMAR MUKHIYA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14682 of 2009 MUNNI KUMARI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14685 of 2009 PRASANN KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with 2 CWJC No.14899 of 2009 ROHITESH KUMAR @ ROHITESH KR.Y Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14963 of 2009 GANESH YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14967 of 2009 SUSHIL KUMAR & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.15046 of 2009 BHOLA PRASAD RAI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.15197 of 2009 LALSA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.13865 of 2009 PRADEEP KUMAR THAKUR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14117 of 2009 SURESH PRASAD SUMAN Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14149 of 2009 ASHOK KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14225 of 2009 RAM KAILASH PRASAD Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14324 of 2009 AJAY KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14333 of 2009 3 AJAY KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14334 of 2009 KHURSHID ALAM Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14409 of 2009 RABINDRA KUMAR CHAUDHARY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14587 of 2009 PARMANAND YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14182 of 2009 BRAJ KISHORE RAI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.14152 of 2009 MD.HASWULLAH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.15166 of 2009 SUDHI NARAYAN SINGH @ SUDHI NA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.15167 of 2009 KIRTI NARAYAN PRASAD Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS with CWJC No.15189 of 2009 SHIV SHANKAR PODDAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 3. 13.11.2009 Heard the counsel for the petitioners and the counsel appearing for the state. Petitioners, in all these writ applications, have 4 challenged the report submitted by the High Level Committee constituted under the Chairmanship of Dr. Manoranjan Chaturvedi and Dr. Geeta Prasad. The high level committees were constituted in the light of direction of the High court in L.P.A. No. 946 of 2003 to scrutinize cases of such class-III & class-IV employees whose cases were disposed of by a common order, in the light of the judgment passed in State of Karnataka Vs Uma Devi. The direction was also to conduct such an inquiry after examining connected records and documents of their appointment after giving opportunities to the persons/employees whose appointment was being scrutinized. Petitioners’ case is that the committee did not conduct the inquiry properly in the light of the direction . Persons, whose appointment were being scrutinized, not given any opportunity to defend their cases, in a most casual manner, without properly considering the documents connected with the appointment of the petitioners and in complete violation of rule of natural justice. The appointment of the petitioners was kept either in illegal or forged category. It is submitted, in most of the writ applications that the criteria fixed by the committee for deciding and putting appointments in illegal, irregular and forged category, were not also properly observed. Though petitioners fulfilled all four criteria, on fulfilling which their services should have not been put in the category of irregular appointment and thus entitled for reinstatement were put in illegal or forged category for no rhyme 5 and reasons. On similar grounds, similarly appointed employees in the Health Department, whose services were also terminated in the light of the inquiry report submitted by high level committee constituted on the basis of the direction of this court in L.P.A. No. 946 of 2003, had come before this court and their cases were heard and decided by a common judgment and order passed in C.W.J.C. No. 6575/09 & analogous cases. The finding has been recorded in the judgment on the propriety of the inquiry report, on the point of violation of rule of natural justice and also on the point that how illegally the appointments have been put under forged category, without fulfilling the necessary requirement for conducting an inquiry in the matters of forged appointments. All those findings which have been recorded in C.W.J.C. No. 6575 of 2009 & analogous cases are fully applicable in the case of present petitioners. Petitioners are duly covered by the judgment and order passed in C.W.J.C. No. 6575 of 2009 & analogous cases. Accordingly, in the light of similar finding as recorded in C.W.J.C. No. 6575 of 2009 & analogous cases, the inquiry report submitted in the case of the petitioners by the high level committee is being quashed. Their termination orders are also quashed. The respondents are directed to reinstate the petitioners on their respective posts with all consequential benefits. These writ applications are allowed. AKV/ (Mridula Mishra, J.)