IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1890 of 2009 ANIL PRAKASH SINHA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 3. 21.5.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is an employee of the erstwhile Bihar State Agricultural Marketing Board (hereinafter to be referred to as the Board). Under a scheme framed by the State Government for absorption of the employees of the Board after its dissolution, in other departments, the petitioner was recommended for absorption as a Junior Engineer. On a requisition made by the Housing Board for two vacancies on the post of Executive Engineer, the petitioner and one Ved Prakash Lal were declined deputation on the higher post of Executive Engineer in the Housing Board on the plea that under the scheme they have been absorbed on the post of Junior Engineer. The other person, Sri Ved Prakesh Lal questioned the action of the respondents in a writ petition against which he finally prefer L.P.A. No. 219 of 2009. The L.P.A. Court by its order dated 31.4.2009 observed that action of the respondents was not commensurate with law. The judgment of the writ Court was set aside and the appeal allowed. Learned counsel for the State fairly submits that - 2 - the case of the petitioner being the second person named in the letter dated 1.1.2009 is similarly situated as Sri Ved Prakesh Lal who has also been named therein. This Court is satisfied that the order dated 30.4.2009 in L.P.A. No. 219 of 2009 applies with equal force to the petitioner also in light of the decision on an issue, common to both. The writ application is disposed off in like terms as L.P.A. No. 219 of 2009. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)