IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.8974 of 2010 1. Jai Prakash Upadhyay, son of Late Chandrika Upadhyay, resident of village Raghunathpur, Police Station Turkaulia, District East Champaran. 2. Krishna Kant Pandey, son of Late Gauri Shankar Pandey, resident of Mohalla Agarwa Lala Tola, Police Station Town (Motihari), District East Champaran. 3. Prem Chandra Pandey, son of Sri Anirudh Pandey, resident of Mohalla Mathiya Jirat, Police station Chhitauni, District East Champaran. 4. Smt. Sita Mira Mishra, wife of Sri Shashi Kumar Mishra, resident of Mohalla Bhawanipur Jirat, Police Station Chhitauni, District East Champaran……………………………..…………Petitioners Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary, Department of Finance, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director, Department of Agriculture, Government of Bihar, Patna. 4. The Joint Director of agriculture, Tirhut Division, Muzaffarpur. 5. The Deputy Director of Agriculture, Motihari………………………………………………..……..Respondents ----------- 2 30.03.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned counsel for the State. The case of the petitioners is that by Annexure-1, they have been allowed pay-scale of Rs.4500-124-7000 with effect 01.01.1996. Prayer of the petitioners is that their pay-scale should have been revised and they should have been placed in pay-scale of 2 Rs.5000-8000 in terms of the letter of the Joint Director, Agriculture, Trihut Division, Muzaffarpur dated 02.01.2007, as contained in Annexure-2, with effect from the same date i.e. 01.01.1996. Admittedly, petitioners have not filed any representation making their claim before the appropriate authority. In the circumstances, the writ application is disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to file a representation before the respondent- Director, Department of Agriculture, Government of Bihar, Patna within a period of three weeks from today. If such a representation is filed, respondent-Director shall examine whether case of the petitioners is covered by the said letter of the Joint Director, Agriculture dated 02.01.2007 or not and if he finds that the said letter also applies to the case of the petitioners, he shall pass appropriate orders in accordance with law for grant of such pay scale to them from the relevant date and for release of 3 arrears of the said scale preferably within two months from the date of filing of the representation. BT (J. N. Singh, J.)