IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15988 of 2001 SANDESHWARI PRASAD & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS With CWJC No.16016 of 2001 SHASHI BHUSHAN KR.GOND & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS With CWJC No.16020 of 2001 HARI SHANKAR SAH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS With CWJC No.4609 of 2002 SHASHI BHUSHAN KUMAR GOND &ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 7 10.07.2009 These writ applications are taken up together as the facts and issues are similar in all the cases and cases can be disposed of by a common order. C.W.J.C. No. 15988 of 2001 as well as C.W.J.C. No. 16016 of 2001 were filed by the respective petitioners with a prayer for direction for payment of salary. During the pendency of these two writ applications the petitioners were suspended. Therefore, all the four of them jointly filed C.W.J.C. No. 4609 of 2002 challenging the suspension order which is contained in Annexure-37 series. From the said Annexure-37 series, it appears that they were suspended on the ground that they had produced a wrong caste - 2 - certificate. Today, learned counsel for the petitioners has filed a supplementary affidavit. Along with supplementary affidavit he has enclosed a Resolution of the Government dated 20.03.2007 by which ‘Gond’ caste has now been put under the category of scheduled tribe. With the supplementary affidavit learned counsel for the petitioners has also annexed fresh caste certificates issued in favour of the petitioners describing them as scheduled tribe pursuant to the said Resolution. Learned counsel for the petitioner has also annexed the follow-up order issued by the District Superintendent of Education, East Champaran by which in view of fresh caste certificates issued in favour of the petitioners, which was duly verified, order for payment of salary of the petitioners have been passed vide Annexure-42. In view of the said order of the District Superintendent of Education, East Champaran, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the grievances of the petitioners have been redressed and, therefore, he submits that all the applications have become infructuous. C.W.J.C. No. 16020 of 2001 was filed by a - 3 - similarly situated petitioner for direction for payment of salary. It appears from the records that his salary was also stopped on the ground that he had also submitted a wrong caste certificate. From the said order of the District Superintendent of Education, East Chamapran annexed as Annexure-42 with the said supplementary affidavit filed today in C.W.J.C. No. 4609 of 2002, it appears that the petitioner of the said C.W.J.C. No. 16020 of 2001 has also been ordered to be paid his salary. Therefore, in view of the order of the District Superintendent of Education, the said writ application has also becomes infructuous. In the circumstances, all these writ applications are dismissed as infructuous. Arvind/ (J. N. Singh, J.)