IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3590 of 2001 RAJEEV RANJAN ROY & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 08- 21.11.2008 Heard Mr. Rama Nand Poddar for the petitioners, and Mr. Naresh Kumar Sinha for the respondent – Katihar Municipality. Two petitioners have joined this writ petition seeking a common direction to the Katihar Municipality to restore their services as daily wage employees and set aside the office order bearing memo no. 09, dated 5.9.2001 (Annexure 1) in so far as it concerns them. The respondents have filed their counter affidavit and supported the impugned action. 2. We have perused the materials on record and considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties. Large number of class III and class IV employees were engaged by the Katihar Municipality who worked for brief periods. These were back-door appointments and they were appointed without advertisement at all. The State Government stopped all financial aids to the Municipality as a result of which it was unable to pay to various employees. There was paucity of work also. Taking into account large number of facts, the impugned order was passed. It thus appears to me that the impugned order cannot be faulted. Furthermore, similarly circumstanced employees had preferred a large number of writ petitions in this Court which were dismissed. The appeals preferred by them were dismissed by a common order dated 15.7.2003 passed in LPA No.551 of 2003 (Subhash Chandra Mahto & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar & Ors.) and analogous LPA No.560 of 2003 (Shankar Prasad Goswami & Ors. Vs. - 2 - The State of Bihar & Ors.). 3. In the result, the writ petition is dismissed. ( S K Katriar ) mrl