IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3937 of 2011 Vijay Kant Sharma, son of late Ram Bilash Singh, R/o Vill.- Chhotaki Akauna, P.S. – Ghoshi, District – Jehanabad, at present posted as Under Secretary, Advocate General Office, Patna High Court, Patna. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. Principal Secretary, General Administration Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 4. Deputy Secretary, General Administration Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. ----------- For the petitioner: M/s. R. K. Singh and Vivek Prasad. For the State : Mrs. Nilu Agrawal, GA-6 and Mr. Jainendra Kr. Sinha, AC to GA-6. ----- 03. 05.8.2011 The issue raised by the petitioner in the present writ application has now been answered by yet another learned Single Judge in the case of Arun Prasad and others, decided on 8.7.2011. Writ number is CWJC No.5649 of 2008. A copy of the order has been produced for perusal of this Court. The contention of the counsel for the petitioner seems to be correct. In view of the same this writ application is disposed of with a direction upon the respondent State that they will abide by the direction issued by the learned Single Judge in Arun Prasad’s case which, according to the counsel for the State, is under active consideration of the State. Let needful be done in this regard as law on the question seems to have been declared in similar circumstances at the earliest now. The case of the petitioner would be 2 considered in light of the same. Writ is disposed of in the aforesaid terms. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)