IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5879 of 2009 MEENA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2/ 12/05/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. A Government servant once appointed, cannot be denied work. If he is wrongly denied work, he is still entitled to salary. The case of the petitioner is that after an appointment made years ago on 8.3.1983 as a female voluntary worker under the signature of the Civil Surgeon and Chief Medical Officer and subsequent promotion as a Health Attendant on a regular pay-scale, issues of the legality of her appointment were sought to be reopened by a roving and fishing enquiry by an order dated 18.12.2008, when her salary has been stopped and assignment of work has also been prohibited on 1.4.2009. The impugned orders to that extent are arbitrary. A roving and fishing enquiry is not sufficient justification in law to deny work to the petitioner and salary subsequent thereto. The impugned orders are set aside only to the 2 extent that it denies salary and work to the petitioner. The writ application is allowed only to the extent indicated. KC (Navin Sinha, J.)