IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.8042 of 2011 Ramesh Prasad, son of late Lala Pd Yadav, Resident of Ramayan Bhawan, L.C.T. Ghat, Mainpura, P.O. + P.S. Patliputra, Dist. Patna- 800 001. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary, Department of Industries, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director, Handloom and Sericulture, Directorate, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 4. Screening Committee through its Chairman, Directorate of H & S, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 5. The Deputy Secretary, Department of Industries, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 6. The Deputy Director, Handloom and Sericulture, Directorate, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 7. The Accountant General, Bihar, B C Patel Path, Patna. 8. Assistant Director of Industries (Sericulture), Tirhut Division, Combined Building, Muzaffarpur. ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Praveen Kumar. For the State : Mr. Gopal Krishna, AC to GP-19. ---- 02. 17.8.2011 Petitioner is a retired employee of the Department of Handloom and Sericulture. He has filed many a representations before the Director, Industries and the Principal Secretary, Industries, Government of Bihar, which would be evident from Annexure-4 series. His claim is that he is entitled to the benefit of grant of 1st, 2nd and 3rd ACPs keeping in mind the tenure or length of service he rendered under the respondents. From perusal of Annexure-2 it is evident that a meeting of the scrutiny committee was held on 25.5.2010 in which benefits have been granted or accorded to many an employees but case of the petitioner with some others was not decided on the ground that his service book did not indicate 2 clearly as to the time of his appointment. If that was the only reason for deferment, respondents have a duty to sort it out at their own level at the earliest because from the pleadings in the writ application it does not seem to be an issue where a legal adjudication as such is required to be made with regard to the entitlement of the petitioner. Writ application therefore, is disposed of with a direction upon the Director, Handloom and Sericulture Directorate, Government of Bihar, respondent No.3, that taking cognizance of the claim of the petitioner made by him on 26.7.2010, he shall get the matter examined and take a decision within a period of three months from the date of production / communication of a copy of this order. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)