IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5188 of 2009 AMRENDRA KUMAR & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2. 23.04.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned Counsel for the State. The petitioners claim to have been appointed in 2006/2007 on Class III posts on compassionate ground after their cases were recommended by the competent committee. Their grievance is that despite such appointment in accordance with law they are being given payment of Rs. 4000/- per month only and not regular pay scale as being applicable. Reliance is further placed on Annexure 8, an order dated 3.7.2006 with regard to a similar person recommended along with the petitioners in the same transaction but who has been given a regular pay scale. If the petitioners have been recommended in accordance with law for appointment on compassionate ground, as it prima facie appears, there is absolutely no justification for the respondents to deny them regular pay scale. The writ petition is raising a purely administrative issue at this stage. A purely administrative issue which should have been disposed in routine manner in the portals of the Secretariat has been generated as a litigation by the officials of the State burdening the High Court by refusal to discharge routine administrative duties unless a request to do so be received from the High Court. Respondent no. 2 is directed to ensure that the petitioners are given regular pay scale in accordance with law from the date of appointment along with arrears. This Court also requires the respondent no. 2 to hold an administrative enquiry why this litigation was generated by the Administrator concerned and take appropriate disciplinary action. Let the order be complied with within a maximum period of two months from the date of receipt and/or production of a copy of this order. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)