IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3370 of 2008 RAJ KISHORE SINGH & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 3 11.04.2011 The petitioners are claiming that they were working on different posts in the Forest Department as daily wagers. The claim of the petitioners is that they should have been regularized in the Forest Department as they are worked against sanctioned post, and are performing their job continuously since the date of the engagement. Stand has been taken in the counter affidavit that the posts against which the petitioners are working as daily wager are not a sanctioned post and that the State cannot regularize the services of such petitioners, without taking into consideration the number of the daily wages staff in the Forest Department through out the State of Bihar. Counsel on behalf of the petitioners has submitted that the Conservator of Forest had asked for report of the number of daily wagers. It is stated that the claim of the petitioners figures in Annexure-7 series which is annexed in the reply of the petitioners to the counter affidavit. All these facts would have to be necessarily 2 considered by the respondent No. 2 in accordance with Para 53 of the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in the case of the Secretary, State of Karnataka & Others Vs. Uma Devi (3) & Others reported in 2006 (4) SCC 1. The matter may be brought to the notice of the respondent No. 2 within a period of six weeks of the receipt of a copy of the order. This application is thus disposed of with the aforesaid observations. In case the Forest Department does not intend to regularize the petitioners and others like him, it would be in the interest of justice to reject their claim instead of allowing them to live in a state of uncertainty and false hopes! Prakash ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)