IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14434 of 2010 Arunanand Jha, Son of Late Jagannath Jha, Resident of Village Chatariya, P.S. Shubhankarpur, District Darbhanga Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Principal Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna 3. The Director, Directorate of ICDS, Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bihar, Indira Bhawan, Ram Charitra Singh Path, Near Bailey Road Railway Crossing, Patna 4. Bihar State Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited, Patna 5. The Managing Director, Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited, Patna ----------- 02/ 06.09.2010 Counsel for the petitioner is permitted to correct the description of Respondents 4 and 5. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, State and the Handloom & Handicraft Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). 3. Petitioner is an employee of the Corporation. He is, however, presently serving in the Bihar State Beverage Corporation Limited. He has filed this writ application for a direction to the Corporation to grant him the benefit of extended retirement age of 60 years, as has been allowed by this Court to Jitendra Nath Verma under orders dated 17.8.2009, passed in C.W.J.C. No. 13398 of 2008, Annexure-6 to this application, who is also an 2 employee of the Corporation, but at the relevant time was serving on deputation in the office of the Child Development Project Office in the district of Vaishali. 4. Counsel for the Corporation states that against the order dated 17.8.2009, Annexure-6, State Government has filed L.P.A. No. 214 of 2010, which is on the daily cause list of D.B.-I of this Court. 5. The orders of this Court dated 17.8.2009, Annexure-6 has not been stayed so far. In the circumstances, this Court is disposing of the present writ application exactly in the same terms which is contained in order dated 17.8.2009, Annexure-6 to this application and petitioner be allowed the benefit of extended retirement age of 60 years for the reasons indicated in the order dated 17.8.2009, Annexure-6. Arjun/ ( V. N. Sinha, J.)