Chandra Gupta Kumar And Ors. Etc. Etc. vs State Of Bihar And Ors. Etc. Etc.

2. After appointing those 186 candidates, the State is further permitted and directed to appoint 97 candidates, who have been selected pursuant to our order dated 20.04.2017.

Therefore, without prejudice to the contentions available to the parties, 6 for the time being, let all candidates undergo the physical test. Though there is a serious dispute with regard to the approach, we direct that the remaining candidates will undergo the physical test without prejudice to their contentions.”

11. The selection process will be completed in three months.

12. We make it clear that we have not considered the merits of the selection already conducted pursuant to our order dated 20.04.2017. In case anyone has any grievance with regard to the same, he shall be free to take recourse to any other remedy before appropriate forum.

13. We also make it clear that this Judgment is passed in the peculiar facts of these cases, for doing complete justice and, therefore, it may not be treated as a precedent.

14. In view of the above, nothing survives in the contempt petitions, being Contempt Petition Nos. 367-369 of 2016 in Civil Appeal Nos. 2795-2797 of 2017, which are, accordingly, dismissed. 8

15. We direct the Registry that it shall not entertain any petition/application, either impleadment or reopening or review in respect of the selection of Sub-Inspectors for the year 2004 without express permission from this Court.

16. With the above observations and directions, the appeals are disposed of.

September 14, 2017.

Civil Appeal No(s). 2795-2797/2017 CHANDRA GUPTA KUMAR AND ORS. ETC. ETC. Appellant(s) VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR AND ORS. ETC. ETC. & ORS. Respondent(s) (impleading party) (APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) WITH CONMT.PET.(C) No. 367-369/2016 In C.A. No. 2795-2797/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2798-2800/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2801-2803/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2805/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2806-2810/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2804/2017 (XVI) C.A. No. 2811/2017 (XVI) Date : 14-09-2017 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE R. BANUMATHI Counsel for the parties Mr. Ravindra Srivastava, Sr. Adv.

Mr. M. K. Choudhary, Adv.

Mr. Yudhister Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Harshul Singh, Adv.

Mr. Kritika Khurana, Adv.

Ms. Namita Choudhary, Adv.

Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dhruv Kumar Jha, Adv.

Ms. Nooreen Sarna, Adv.

Ms. Azra Rehman, Adv.

Mr. Kiran Kumar Jaipuriar, AOR Mr. Nagendra Rai, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Shantanu Sagar, Adv.

Mr. P. S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Anurag Pandey, Adv.

Mr. Chandra Prakash, Adv.

Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.

Mr. Shailendra Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Amit Pawan, Adv.

Mr. Anand Nandan, Adv.

Mr. Hassan Zubar Waris, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Akshat Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Akshay Sinha, Adv.

Mr. Durga Dutt, Adv.

Mr. Rohit Priyadarshi, Adv.

Mr. Himanshu Munshi, Adv.

Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv.

Mr. Shivam Singh, Adv.

Mr. Arun K. Sinha, Adv.

Mr. Rakesh Singh, Adv.

Mr. Chakrapani, Adv.

Mr. Anurag Singh, Adv.

Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Kumar Ranjan, Adv.

Mr. Murli Manohar Singh, Adv. Mr. Kaushik Poddar, Adv.

Mr. Vivek Vardhan, Adv.

Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv.

Ms. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Mohit Kumar Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Sanchita, Adv.

Ms. Manju Sharma Jetley, Adv. Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Ms. Lakshmi Raman Singh, AOR Mr. Subhro Sanyal, AOR Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Gyan Prakash Srivastava, AOR Ms. Reena Pandey, AOR Mr. Dushyant Parashar, AOR 11 Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R The civil appeals are disposed of and the contempt petitions are dismissed in terms of the signed non-reportable Judgment. Pending Interlocutory Applications, if any, stand disposed of. (JAYANT KUMAR ARORA) (RENU DIWAN) COURT MASTER ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Signed non-reportable Judgment is placed on the file)