IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4812 of 2001 KISHORI MAHTO & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 5 04.09.2008 Heard Learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner no. 1 is stated to have been deceased during the pendency of the writ application. The writ application is dismissed as infructuous with regard to him. Learned counsel for the petitioners in this writ application confines his submission to the claim for regularization only. It is submitted that they were appointed on Daily Wages in between the period 1982-87 in the Public Health Engineering Department. They were then brought in the Work- Charge Establishment which then came to be annulled relegating them to the status to Daily Wagers. It is their case that they are still continuing on duty in their capacity as Daily Wagers. Learned counsel for the State has no objection to the limited prayer made on behalf of the petitioner/or disposal of the writ application, in terms of a Division Bench order of this Court report in 2006 (3) P.L.J.R. 376 more particularly paragraph no. 13 of the same wherein directions have appropriately been given for consideration of the case of persons like the petitioners in accordance with law, inter alia of the Department of Public Health and Engineering. - 2 - The writ application stands disposed of in terms of Division Bench order of this Court in the case Ram Tapeshwar Sah and Ors. Vrs. The State of Bihar & Ors. for consideration of the case of the petitioners for regularization in accordance with law as directed therein. Learned counsel for the petitioners voices apprehension that perhaps the Committees constituted by the respondent has been disbanded now after consideration of those who are the subject matter of the writ petitions ordered by the Division Bench. Counsel for the State submits that the apprehension is misconceived because the Committee once constituted continues to exist in law and shall only have to hold its sittings afresh to decide the case of similar persons under orders of this Court. pkj (Navin Sinha, J)