IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10523 of 2009 GIRINDRA MOHAN MISHRA “PARAMHANS”, S/O SRI HARI KANT MISHRA, R/O VILLAGE-KAMLA, P.S.- UJIYARPUR, DISTRICT-SAMASTIPUR, AT PRESENT HEADMASTER IN GANDHI SANSKRIT PRATHMIK SAH MADHYAMIK VIDYALAYA, KAMALA, P.S.-UJIYARPUR, DISTRICT-SAMASTIPUR. ………………PETITIONER. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. THE SECRETARY, MANAV SHANSHADHAN VIKASH VIBHAG, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA, VIKAS BHAWAN, PATNA. 3. THE SPECIAL DIRECTOR, SECONDARY EDUCATION, INCHARGE, SANSKRIT EDUCATION, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, VIKASH BHAWAN, PATNA. 4. THE BIHAR SANSKRIT SHIKSHA BOARD, BORING ROAD, PATNA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY. 5. THE CHAIRMAN, THE BIHAR SANSKRIT SHIKSHA BOARD, BORING CANAL ROAD, PATNA. 6. THE SECRETARY, THE BIHAR SANSKRIT SHIKSHA BOARD, BORING ROAD, PATNA. 7. THE DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER, SAMASTIPUR, DISTRICT-SAMASTIPUR. 8. THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF GANDHI SANSKRIT PRATHMIK SAH MADHYAMIK VIDYALAYA, KAMALA, P.S.-UJIYARPUR, DISTRICT-SAMASTIPUR. ………………RESPONDENTS. ----------- 5 06.10.2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner has filed a supplementary affidavit today. With the supplementary affidavit an office order of the Bihar Sanskrit Siksha Board dated 23.02.2010 is annexed as Annexure-6 from which it transpires that the resolution of the Managing Committee dated 10.05.2008 appointing the petitioner as Headmaster of the school has been approved by the Board and pay scale has also been fixed. Learned counsel for the petitioner 2 submits that the payment of salary as per the pay scale fixed by the Board has been paid to him from April, 2009 up-to-date, but the payment of the period 01.05.2008 to 31.03.2009 has not been paid to him. Inspite of repeated calls, no one appears for the respondent Board as well as for the other respondents. In the circumstances, this writ application is disposed of with a direction to the respondent no.7, District Education Officer, Samastipur, who is said to be the drawing and disbursing authority in this regard, to consider the case of the petitioner in the light of the approval granted by the Board and release the salary of the period, as noticed above, in accordance with law, preferably within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Arvind/ ( J. N. Singh, J.)