IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No 10421 of 2008 Baccha Prasad, son of late Janak Prasad, resident of Mohalla - Kashi Bazar, Police Station + P O - Bhagwan Bazar, Dist - Chapra - Petitioner Versus 1) The State of Bihar 2) The Principal Secretary of Finance, Old Secretariat, Patna -cum- Chairman, Three Men’s Committee, Bihar Agriculture Produce Market (Repeal) Act, 2006, Patna 3) The Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner, Bihar, Patna - cum- Member of Three Men’s Committee, Bihar Agriculture Produce Market (Repeal) Act, 2006, Patna 4) The Principal Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Patna - cum- Member of Three Men’s Committee, Bihar Agriculture Produce Market (Repeal) Act, 2006, Patna - Respondents ----------- 2 06.07.2009 On special mention, the case is called out. The petitioner states that he was working as an Assistant in the Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board on deputation from Department of Agriculture, Government of Bihar. As a consequence of the repeal of the Bihar Agriculture Produce Market Act, 1960, in terms of Section 6 of the said Act, a Three Men’s Committee had to take a decision with regard to absorption etc of the erstwhile employees of the Marketing Board. Petitioner was not considered apparently because he was not a permanent employee of the Board but of the Agriculture Department on deputation to the Board. He filed a representation before the Three Men’s Committee pursuant to direction of this Court in CWJC No 179 of 2006 disposed of on 12.02.2007 but the said representation has been pending before the Three Member’s Committee since 12.03.2007 and petitioner has not been communicated any order upon consideration. Till recently, he was being paid his salary but now even that has been stopped. The result is that neither the petitioner is being 2 absorbed nor being sent back to his parent department nor his representation is being disposed of. I deem it fit to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the Three Men’s Committee set up under Section 6 of the Repealing Act to expeditiously dispose of the representation of the petitioner. If it has already been dealt with and disposed of, the order must be communicated to the petitioner immediately. It would also be open to the petitioner to represent his parent department for taking back his services and suitably appointing him. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh)