IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16186 of 2007 Rajendra Jha, son of Sri Deo Narayan Jha, resident of Village Panchveer, P.S. S.Kamal, Dist. Begusarai, presently posted as Assistant Teacher, Middle School, Sanha Puwaritol, P.S. S.Kamal, Dist. Begusarai. ---------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the District Superintendent of Education, Begusarai. 2. The Regional Education Officer, Balia, Dist. Begusarai. 3. The Treasury Officer, Begusarai. 4. Sri Nath Yadav, Drawing Disbursing Officer-cum-Headmaster, Middle School, Panchveer, P.S. S.Kamal, Dist. Begusarai. --------- Respondents ----------------- 2 19.12.2011 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The only grievance of the petitioner in this writ application filed on 11.12.2007 was with regard to payment of salary of 54 days of Medical Leave. Counsel for the petitioner has submitted that when the writ application was filed, neither the leave was sanctioned nor payment of salary for the aforesaid period was made to the petitioner. Mr. Upadhyay, learned counsel for the State, has however submitted that during the pendency of this writ application, sanction of medical leave has already been accorded with a decision for also making payment of salary of the petitioner for the period of 54 days of Medical Leave. In this 2 regard, he has referred to Annexure-A, B & C respectively to the counter affidavit to show that the formal approval in this regard has already been made and the Headmaster of the school, being the Drawing and Disbursing Officer, has also been directed to make payment of salary for the relevant period. In that view of the matter, this application seems to have become infructuous on account of the subsequent event, which had taken place immediately after filing of the writ application as would be apparent from the simultaneous reading of Annexure-A, B & C respectively. None of the parties, are, however aware as to whether the actual payment of salary for the period of medical leave of 54 days has been made or not and, therefore, this Court would give liberty to the petitioner to approach the District Programme Officer, Begusarai. In case the payment of salary of 54 days Medical Leave, as specifically raised in this writ application, has not been made to the petitioner as yet the District Programme Officer, Begusarai, after making necessary verification will see 3 to it that such payment to the petitioner is made forthwith and in no event later than one month from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observations, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)