IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.332 of 2004 SRINIWAS PRASAD SINGH S/O late Shashi Bhusan Prasad Singh, resident of Village- Gonawan, P.S. Harnaut, District-Nalanda. ......Petitioner. Versus 1. The Bihar State Forest Development Corporation through its Managing Director, 13, Patliputra, Patna. 2. The Managing Director the Bihar State Forest Development Corporation, 13, Patliputra, Patna. 3. The Chief Conservator-cum- Managing Director, Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation, Ranchi. 4. The General Manager, Minor Forest Produce Project, Circle, Hazaribagh. 5. The Union of India through the Ministry of Home, New Delhi. 6. The State of Bihar through the Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary, Main Secretariat, Patna. 7. The State of Jharkhand, through the Secretary, Home Department, Ranchi. ----------- 09. 07.11.2009. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the respondents. Petitioner has filed this writ application praying inter alia to direct the respondent-corporation to consider his case for promotion on the post of Range Officer. During pendency of this writ application, petitioner has been promoted as Range Officer under Memo No.613 dated 01.10.2005 and the order is contained in Annexure-10 to the supplementary affidavit. As during pendency of this writ application, petitioner has been granted promotion on the post of Range Officer in normal course, the petition should have been disposed of as infructuous but the grievance of the petitioner in the instant case still subsists as presently the petitioner is posted as Range Officer in Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation at Hazaribagh and the authorities at Hazaribagh are 2 not granting him benefit of the order of promotion dated 01.10.2005. In this connection, it is pointed out that the cadre of the employees of the Bihar State Forest Development Corporation has not yet been finally allocated/bifurcated by the competent authority of the Union of India and until the cadre is not finally allocated/bifurcated, the joint status of the employees of two Corporations, namely, Bihar State Forest Development Corporation as also the Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation continues and in appreciation of such joint status of two Corporations the authorities at Hazaribagh should follow the order dated 01.10.2005, Annexure-10 as until the cadre of the employees of the Bihar State Forest Development Corporation bifurcated they continue to be the employees of the Bihar State Forest Development Corporation may be serving in the office of the Corporation in the State of Jharkhand. I see substance in the submission of the counsel for the petitioner and accordingly direct that the authorities at Hazaribagh should follow the office order dated 01.10.2005, Annexure-10, and pay the petitioner’s emoluments of Range Officer in terms of the order dated 01.10.2005. Arrears of difference of salary in the light of the Annexure-10 be paid to the petitioner as early as possible in any case within three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order before the authorities at Hazaribagh and the current salary from the month of December, 2009. 3 Before parting with this order, it is made clear that after final allocation of the cadre of the employees of the Bihar State Forest Development Corporation if the petitioner is allocated to Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation then the authorities of the Jharkhand State shall be entitled to revise the order dated 01.10.2005 in accordance with law as per the staffing pattern available in the Jharkhand Sate Forest Development Corporation as counsel for the State of Jharkhand has pointed out that under the Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation there is no post of Range Officer. This application is, accordingly, disposed of. U.K. (V.N.Sinha,J)