IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4156 of 2009 SURESH SINGH & ORS . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 02 09.02.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners claim to be the employees of the Department of Agriculture belonging to Cadre-VIII, the Weights and Measures sent on deputation to the Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board. It is their stand that they were not absorbed in the Board and continued to remain on deputation. The Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board has now been wound up and, therefore, they are entitled to be reverted back to their parent department in the Weights and Measures Department under the Department of Agriculture. As a consequence of this imbroglio they are not getting their salary from September, 2008 also. The petitioners appear to have represented for the purpose vide Annexure-3. Let the representation of the petitioners be appropriately considered and disposed of by a reasoned and speaking order in accordance with law within a maximum period of two months from 2 the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Any developments with regard to retirement etc. of any one of the petitioners in the meanwhile shall remain open the question for determination of his monetary claims from the date that the deputation ended by virtue of winding up of the Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board and the decision on the claims for repatriation to the Weights and Measures Department that may be arrived at by the authorities. The application stands disposed off. P.K. (Navin Sinha, J.)