IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.298 of 2004 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The Civil Surgeon-cum-Chief Medical Officer, Gaya 3. The Additional Chief Medical Officer, Public Health Office, Gaya …..Respondents - Appellants Versus RAMAKANT ALOK, son of Sri Janeshwar Prasaad Singh, resident of village – Mahuari, PO Kamalpur, PS Tekari, District Gaya …..Petitioner-Respondent ----------- 06- 23/8/2010 Heard Mr. Sanjay Prakash Verma, learned Assistant Counsel to Govt. Advocate no.V, and Mr. Dinu Kumar for the sole respondent. This appeal raises a grievance against the judgment dated 8.9.2003, passed by a learned single Judge of this Court in CWJC No.4702 of 2003, and a large number of analogous writ petitions including the present writ petition bearing CWJC No.8596 of 2003, whereby the orders of termination of services of the different writ petitioners including the present writ petitioner were set aside, and the authorities were directed to reinstate them in service with certain conditions because of their prolonged continuance in service. The State Government had dispensed with their services because of their back-door entries, absence of advertisement and publicity of the vacancies. The State of Bihar had preferred appeals in this Court against the judgment of the learned single Judge which were disposed of by a Division Bench of this Court by judgment dated 26.6.2006, passed in the case of State of Bihar vs. Purendra Sulan Kit, reported in 2006 (3) PLJR 386, and the analogous appeals, whereby the appeals were allowed. The Division Bench disagreed with the order of the learned single Judge, referred the 2 cases of all the appellants and the writ petitioners before the Division Bench to the State Government for consideration of their cases for the purpose of regularization or otherwise in accordance with the judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Secretary, State of Karnataka vs Uma Devi [(2006) 4 SCC 1]. 2. The case of the present writ petitioner was not considered by the Division Bench and remained pending in this Court. We are of the view that the case of the present writ petitioner is also governed by the judgment in State of Bihar v. Purendra Sulan Kit (supra). It is accordingly disposed of in terms of the Division Bench judgment of this Court read with that of the Supreme Court in Secretary, State of Karnataka v. Uma Devi (supra). Paragraph-10 of the Division Bench judgment of this Court is reproduced hereinbelow for the facility of quick reference:- “10. All the Letters Patent Appeals whether preferred by the State or by affected employees and all the Writ Petitions preferred by the affected employees are hereby disposed of by this common judgment and order with a direction to the authorities of the Health Department, Government of Bihar to reconsider the cases of all the affected employees with a view to find out on the basis of relevant facts and law as settled by the Constitution Bench in the case of Secretary, State of Karnataka vs. Uma Devi (supra) as to which of such affected employees are fit for regularization in terms of that judgment, particularly in terms of paragraph 44 of the judgment. Such exercise should be completed within a period of six months from today. If for any good reason, the time period is required to be extended then the respondent State must file an application for that purpose and seek extension from this Court. Till the process is 3 completed, the State of Bihar and its authorities shall maintain status quo in respect of services of the affected employees as existing on date. The status quo shall get revised by the orders that may be passed by the authorities in respect of affected employees as a result of the exercise to be undertaken by them and their final decision in the light of this judgment and order.” 3. The appeal is disposed of with the aforesaid direction. This Court will be pleased if the present writ petitioner’s case is considered and disposed of within a period of six months from today. ( S K Katriar ) ( Birendra Prasad Verma ) mrl