IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3440 of 2009 SANJAY SINGH SON OF SHRI NAGENDRA PRASAD SINGH, RESIDENT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NAGAR, P.S. PATRAKAR NAGAR, DISTT. PATNA. …..PETITIONER. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH SECRETARY DEPTT. OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS, OLD SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA. 2. THE SECRETARY, DEPTT. OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS, OLD SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA. 3. HON’BLE PATNA HIGH COURT THROUGH REGISTRAR GENERAL, PATNA 4. JOINT SECRETARY, DEPTT. OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS, OLD SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA. ----------- FOR THE PETITIONER: M/S Y.V. Giri, Sr. Advocate with Deepak Kumar,Advocate FOR THE PATNA HIGH COURT : M/S Tarakant Jha, Sr. Advocate with Amish Kumar, Advocate. FOR THE STATE : Mr. Sunil Kumar Karn, A.C. to AAG 6. ------ 3/ 13-04-2009 On the recommendation of the Bihar Public Service Commission, the petitioner was provisionally appointed as Civil Judge (Junior Division) as per notification dated 08.10.2007. Subsequently he was posted as temporary Civil Judge ( Junior-Division ) at Jehanabad. Petitioner had applied for extension of time for joining which was granted to him till 21.04.2008. Petitioner again applied for extension of time till December, 2008. Thereafter, the Registrar General of this Court informed the petitioner by letter dated 05.05.2008 that the extension cannot be granted to him as per decision taken by the Court. It is stated that this Court vide its letter dated 16.01.2008 has resolved that any officer of Judicial Service, who had already commenced participating in the selection process of other services before joining judicial service - 2 - may be allowed to complete the participation in such selection process in such service. But here the petitioner has been not granted extension of time . But petitioner wanted to rejoin the judicial service as the extension was allowed to the petitioner by this Court on 24.11.2008. After refusal of extension by the High Court the services of the petitioner were terminated by notification dated 14.10.2008. Thereafter the petitioner filed representation dated 19.02.2009 to the Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government, with a copy to the Registrar General, High Court requesting to allow him to join as Civil Judge at Jehanabad. Since High Court has allowed him to rejoin duty and recommended the Government to allow the petitioner to rejoin duty, Annexure7 is set aside and we direct the State Government to pass orders on basis of the recommendation of the High Court. The State Government will pass order within a period of one month from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. The petitioner is directed to produce a copy of this order before the appropriate authority. This petition is accordingly allowed. BTiwary/ ( J. B. Koshy, CJ ) ( Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J )