IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC NO.14307 OF 2007 MAHENDRA KUMAR, S/O SRI SOHRAI RAM, R/O VILLAGE HASANPUR, P.S RAJGIR, DISTRICT NALANDA AT PRESENT R/O MOHALLA BANGALI PARA, P.S RAJGIR, DISTRICT NALANDA. …………………PETITIONER. VERSUS 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE COMMISSIONER CUM SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 2.THE JOIN SECRETARY, HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 3.THE STATE LEPROSY OFFICER, BIHAR, PATNA. 4.MEDICAL OFFICER, LEPROSY UNIT RAJGIR, NALANDA. ………………………RESPONDENTS. ----------- 02/ 24.11.2011 No one appears for the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present. As with regard to the prayer for regularization of the petitioner said to have been engaged in the Leprosy Control Programme, a specific stand has been taken by the respondents that the Leprosy Control Programme has been itself abandoned and as such it would not be possible for the State to regularize the service of any person in the already abolished schemes. It has to be noted that such stand taken in the counter affidavit was made known to the petitioner by way of service of copy on his counsel on 27.09.2010, but there has been no rejoinder to it, which 2 would mean that the fact relating to appointment in the Leprosy Control Scheme is an admitted fact. That being so, the prayer for regularization of the services of the petitioner has been rendered infructuous and is, accordingly, dismissed. Ranjan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)