IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14566 of 2010 1. ASHOK KUMAR SINGH S/O SHRI BALIRAM SINGH R/O VILL.- NAUTAN P.S.- VIJAYEEPUR, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ, AT PRESENT ACTING HEADMASTER, RAJA SINGH PROJECT GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, NAUTAN, VIJAYEEPUR, GOPALGANJ-----PETITIONER Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA 2. THE DIRECTOR (SECONDARY EDUCATION) HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA 3. THE REGIONAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, SARAN AT CHAPRA 4. THE DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER, GOPALGANJ--RESPONDENTS ----------- 2 21.4.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner is working as acting headmaster of the school which is known as Raja Singh Project Girls High School, Nautan in the district of Gopalganj. This is supposed to be the project school where he is working as headmaster since 15.1.1985. The prayer made in the present writ application is that taking into consideration the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court rendered in the case of A.K. Pradhan vrs. The State of Bihar reported in 1998 (2) PLJR (SC) 2, the petitioner gets right for consideration or regularisation from the date on which he has completed seven years of service which is to be reckoned from the date on which the institution taken over by the State Government. The law being what it is, this writ application is disposed of with a direction upon the Director, Secondary Education, Human Resources Development Department, Government of Bihar to consider the claim of the petitioner in the light of the decision rendered by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the - 2 - case of A.K. Pradhan (Supra) within a reasonable time frame of three months from the date of production or communication of a copy of this order. This writ application stands disposed of in the light of above direction. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)