IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15745 of 2007 VIJAY KANT JHA , son of Late Feku Jha, resident of village- Katsari (Brit) P. O.- Pardesia, P. S. Sheohar, District- Sheohar…. Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Commissioner Secretary-cum-Special Officer (Traffic) Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Engineer-in-chief, Road Construction Department (National Highway) Bihar, Patna. 4. The Chief Engineer, Road Construction Department, (National Highway), Patna. 5. The Executive Engineer, National Highway, Road Construction Department, N. H. Darbhanga Division, Darbhanga. … Respondents. ----------- 2. 07.12.2009. Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “1. That this writ application is being filed for issuance of appropriate writ/order/direction commanding the respondents to pay the current salary and arrear of salary with other consequential benefit time to time granted by the State to the petitioner whose salary is not paid from May 1999 till date.” With reference to the aforementioned prayer, counsel for the petitioner would submit that there is no dispute with regard to working of the petitioner inasmuch as even in the counter affidavit, Executive Engineer, National - 2 - Highway, Road Construction Department accepts this fact that for the period in question the petitioner had worked and a requisition was also submitted by the Executive Engineer to Special Officer of the Government for release of fund. Counsel for the State who has filed the aforementioned counter affidavit would submit that he has telephonic instruction from the Head Office of Road Construction Department that payment of salary to the petitioner for the period upto March 2008 has already been made. Recording the aforementioned submission of counsel for the State which would really ventilate the grievance of the petitioner raised in this writ application, this application is disposed of. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)