IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2692 of 2010 BASANT LAL & ORS. Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. ----------- 3. 23.03.2011 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned Counsel for the State. In so far as the writ application on merits is concerned, this Court held as follows:- “To this Court that is to far fetched a logic to entertain a writ application if the employer is a private agency, engaging the petitioners on contract merely because the agency was in a contract with the State authorities. That shall not vest jurisdiction in this Court to adjudicate the present writ application as a claim for salary or non enforcement of the terms of contract vis-à-vis a private agency. For that the appropriate remedy of the petitioners would be before the Civil/Criminal forum under the general laws of the land.” Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that notwithstanding the same this Court did take notice of the fact that the State authorities after prior notice to the Agency in question with regards to any arrears of the Agency payable by the State to the former could protect the interest of the petitioners. Those observations were not the direction in the writ application which was essentially held to be not maintainable. The contempt proceedings are dismissed as misconceived. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)