IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.8743 of 2002 1. DINESH JHA, son of late Shobhakant Jha, resident of village Saidpur, P.S. Gopalpur, District Bhagalpur, at present posted as an Acting Headmaster, Project Girls High School Saidpur, Bhagalpur 2. Dinesh Jha, son of late Ganesh Jha, resident of village Saidpur, P.S. Gopalpur, District Bhagalpur at present posted as an Assistant Teacher, Project Girls High School, Saidpur, Bhagalpur 3. Bhuneshwar Mistri, son of late Ishwar Mistri, resident of village Saidpur, P.S. Gopalpur District Bhagalpur, at present posted as a clerk in Project Girls High School Saidpur, District Bhagalpur 4. Bahadur Paswan, son of Mohan Paswan, resident of village Kahalgaon, P.S. Kahalgaon, District Bhagalpur, at present posted as a peon in Project Girls High School, Saidpur, Bhagalpur 5. Bodh Narayan Pandit, son of late Narayan Pandit, resident of village Saidpur, P.S. Gopalpur, District Bhagalpur, at present posted as a peon in Project girls High School, Saidpur, District Bhagalpur … Petitioners Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Director, Secondary Education, Bihar, Patna 3. District Superintendent of Education, Bhagalpur … Respondents ----------- 5. 21.6.2010 No one appears for the petitioners. Counsel for the State is present. The prayer of the petitioners as with regard to payment of salary in capacity of teaching/ non-teaching employee of Project Girls High School, Saidpur, Bhagalpur could have been only gone into had the respondents filed counter affidavit. There is no counter affidavit even in a 2 period of eight years of filing of the writ petition. In that view of the matter, this Court would dispose of the present writ application with a direction to the respondents to consider the grievance of the petitioners with regard to payment of salary and pass a reasoned order within four months from the date of receipt of this order. It is made clear that this Court has not gone into the merits of the case and has simply directed for considering the grievance of the petitioners for payment of their salary strictly in accordance with law. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/