IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2180 of 2008 BINOD BIHARI PANDEY, Son of Late Rajeshwar Pandey, Resident of Mohalla- Civil Lines, Buxar, Police Station Town and District- Buxar :--Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Principal Secretary, Water Resources Development Department, Government of Bihar, Patna, presently Mr. Ajay Nayak. 2. The Accountant General, Bihar, Bir Chand Patel Path, Patna, presently Mr. I.D.S.Dhaliwal. 3. Mr. Ajay Nayak, the Principal Secretary, Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar. 4. Mr. I.D.S. Dhariwal, the Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. 5. Mr. P.N.Singh, The Executive Engineer, Mechanical Field Machinery Division (Irrigation Department), Digha, Patna, presently Mr. …Contemner-Opposite Parties. ----------- 3. 03.02.2010. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. In compliance of the orders of this Court dated 17.03.2008 passed in C.W.J.C.No. 3916 of 2006, Annexure-1, petitioner has been allowed pension and gratuity in the revised scale but has not been allowed the arrears of salary in the light of the order bearing memo No. 283 dated 23.1.2008, whereunder the authorities have held that petitioner remained under unauthorized absence for the period between 1.11.1992 till 30.4.1999, as such, during such period he is not entitled to any salary either in the pre- revised scale or in the revised scale. This contempt application is, accordingly, disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to challenge the aforesaid order dated 23.1.2008, Annexure-I to the show-cause as also to raise the other grievance that pension of the petitioner has been fixed in the reduced scale. P.K.P. (V.N.Sinha,J.)