IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14510 of 2008 RUMANA JABIN, wife of Md. Reyazuddin Ansari, D/o Md. Sharif, resident of village-Behta, P.O. & P.S.-Benipatti, District-Madhubani. ...........Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Director, Primary Education, Human Resources Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Magistrate, Madhubani. 4. The Deputy Development Commissioner, Madhubani. 5. The District Superintendent of Education, Madhubani. 6. the Block Development Officer, Benipatti, Madhubani. 7. The Block Education Extension Officer, Benipatti, Madhubani. 8. the Mukhiya, Gram Panchayat Samda, P.O. and P.S.-Benipatti, District- Madhubani. 9. The Panchayat Secretary, Gram Panchayat Samda, P.O. and P.S.- Benipatti, District-Madhubani. ..............Respondents. ----------- 2/ 24.11.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner in this application is working as Panchayat Teacher in Government Primary School, Dhanauja. She was selected for the post and gave her joining in the school on 20.03.2007. Her grievance is that though, she is discharging duty on the post regularly since the date of appointment and fund for payment of her salary has also been released but no payments have been made. She has not received her salary since the date of her appointment. The arrears of salary and the current salary are not being paid. Petitioner’s case is that her salary is lying with Panchayat Secretary i.e. respondent no. 9 and arbitrarily he is refusing to make payment of salary. Petitioner has annexed her absentee record along with writ application, in support of that 2 she is continuously discharging duties. This application is being allowed giving direction to the respondents i.e. Mukhiya and Panchayat Secretary of Gram Panchayat Samda, District-Madhubani, to make payment of salary to the petitioner within eight weeks from the date of production/communication of the order. Sanjeet/ (Mridula Mishra, J.)