IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11827 of 2003 ANJANA KUMARI wife of Dr. Munnu Prasad Singh, resident of New Beer Kunwar Singh Colony (Pokhara), P. S. Hazipur Town, District- Viashali at Hazipur…. Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Secretary cum Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Patna. 2. The District Magistrate cum Chairman, District Bindness Control Society Saran at Chapra. .. respondents. -------- 3. 29.7.2010 Heard Mr. Rashid Izhar, learned counsel for the petitioner. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ petition reads as follows:- “(i) issuance of writ or writs in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to pay salary to the petitioner for the period April 2002 to 30.4.2003 during which the petitioner worked as District Programme Manager under the District Blindness Control Society and remained unpaid due to paucity of fund.” Learned counsel for the petitioner while pressing the aforementioned prayed would submit that true it is the petitioner was appointed by the District Blindness Control Society which was receiving fund from the Government of India but then the payment has to be made from the Government fund and therefore this writ petition will be maintainable. In the opinion of this Court, Societies registered 2 under Society Registration Act, 1860 is an independent and autonomous body and simply because it is funded by the Government from which the payment of salary of the petitioner is paid, will not make either the society state within the meaning of Article 12 or the petitioner a government employee. In that view of the matter, this writ petition is wholly misconceived and must be dismissed. The petitioner, if so advised, may approach appropriate civil court for payment of salary in which the present order dismissing the writ petition would not prejudice her case. kanchan/ (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)