IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.18448 of 2009 RAMESH KUMAR CHAUDHARY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 02 31/03/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner claims that an advertisement was published inviting applications for appointment on Class-IV posts in the Mufassil offices. The candidature of the petitioner was considered by the District level selection committee of the Gaya Collectorate, and after being satisfied that the petitioner had produced necessary experience certificate his name was included in the panel and finds place at serial no. 288, when he has been recommended for appointment on Class-IV in the office of the Civil Surgeon, Gaya. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that his experience certificate had been verified as required by the advertisement and only thereafter he was empanelled. Any alleged confirmation of the experience certificate is a mere ministerial act to be performed by the respondents. Confirmation has also been done by the Additional Collector, Land Reforms Department, Collectorate, Gaya on 21.6.2008 vide Annexure-7. Notwithstanding the same, the petitioner 2 is being subjected to hostile discrimination, when two others, i.e., Pramod Kumar and Ajayant Kumar Das, whose confirmations were also awaited likewise and were received subsequently have been appointed. If the petitioner was empanelled after verification of his experience certificate and the confirmation has also been submitted as is alleged, let the respondent no.4 take an appropriate decision on the appointment of the petitioner in pursuance of his empanelment within a maximum period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. If the respondent no.4 proposes to pass an order adverse against the petitioner, he is required to furnish the grounds to the petitioner first with opportunity to meet the same and then pass a reasoned and speaking order dealing with all issues including that of hostile discrimination, so that judicial review of his order, if necessitated, shall be facilitated. The application stands disposed. P.K. ( Navin Sinha, J.)