IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.6128 of 2010 ANJU KUMARI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate Mr. Vivekanand Singh, Advocate For the State: Mr. R.R. Tiwari, A.C. to A.A.G.-12 ------------ 4. 27.6.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks quashing of the order dated 6.3.2010 issued by the District Superintendent of Education, Kaimur and the letter No.185 dated 30.10.2009 issued by the Block Education Officer, Nuaon, District-Kaimur, by which a direction has been issued to terminate the services of such teachers, who have been appointed at less than 18 years of age. The facts of the case are not in dispute that the petitioner was born on 16.1.1987 and after due process of selection she was appointed as a Panchayat teacher with effect from 2.6.2005 and joined in Upper Grade Middle School, Chandesh in Nuaon Block. The respondent authorities relying on the provisions of resolution dated 11.8.2004 taking the relevant date for calculating the age as 1.1.2005 in terms of the said resolution she was only 17 years 11 months and 16 days on that date. Thus, her appointment was illegal. 2 It is stated by learned counsel for the petitioner that the respondents have issued the letter of termination but the work is still being taken from her. The issue raised in the present writ petition is no longer res integra and has already been decided in the case of Sangita Kumari vs. State of Bihar and ors.: 2009 (4) PLJR 27, in which in similar circumstances, the order terminating the services of the petitioner of that case has been quashed and the respondents were directed to reinstate the said petitioner in service forthwith with full back wages for the period the petitioner was deprived from working on the said post. The present writ application is also allowed in terms of the order dated 13.5.2009 passed in Sangita Kumari’s case (supra) and on the same terms. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )