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Ajit Pathak v. The State Of Bihar

2025-04-22Mr. Justice Anil Kumar Sinha3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.6556 of 2025 ====================================================== 1.

Ajit Pathak Son of Late Prahalad Pathak, Resident of Ward No. 7, VillageAhpura, P.S.- Sandesh, District- Bhojpur. Assistant Teacher in Anant Lal Sanskrit High School Ramasadh, Sandesh, District- Bhojpur. 2.

Awadh Bihari Ojha, Son of Late ram Khelawan Ojha, Resident of VillageKurmuri, P.S.- Sikarhatta, District- Bhojpur. Assistant Teacher in Anant Lal Sanskrit High School Ramasadh, Sandesh, District- Bhojpur. 3.

Sri Dutt Mishra, Son of Late Shashinath Mishra, Resident of VillageRamashadh, P.S.- Sandesh, District- Bhojpur. Clerk in Anant Lal Sanskrit High School Ramasadh, Sandesh, District- Bhojpur. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar through Principal /Additional Secretary, Department of Education, Government of Bihar, Vikash Bhawan, Patna. 2.

The Special Director, Secondary Education, Incharge Sanskrit, Education Department, Government of Bihar, Vikash Bhawan, Patna. 3.

The Bihar Sanskrit Shiksha Board, Bihar, Patna through its Secretary. 4.

The Chairman, Bihar Sanskrit Shiksha Board, Bihar, Patna. 5.

The Secretary, the Bihar sanskrit Shiksha Board, Bihar, Patna. 6.

The District Education Officer, Bhojpur, District- Bhojpur. 7.

The District Programme Officer, Establishment, Bhojpur, District- Bhojpur. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Suresh Kumar Ishwar For the Respondent/s :

Mr.Standing Counsel (5) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 22-04-2025

1. Heard the parties.

2. The petitioners have been working as Assistant Teacher and Clerk in Anant Lal Sanskrit High School Ramasadh Sandesh, District- Bhojpur.

3. The writ application has been filed for a direction to the respondents to grant pay scale under 5th and 6th pay revision to

Patna High Court CWJC No.6556 of 2025(2) dt.22-04-2025 2/3 the petitioners in terms of the judgment dated 13.08.2019 passed in L.P.A. No. 43 of 2016 and analogous cases (Annexure-P/8).

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that Division Bench of this court in similar circumstances directed the respondent authorities in the Education Department to grant benefits of revisional pay scale of 5th and 6th pay revision to the teachers and non-teaching staffs of the non-government recognized (aided) sanskrit schools in the same manner as allowed to the teachers and non-teaching staffs of the government schools together with dearness allowance as admissible thereon.

5. Learned counsel for the state as well as Bihar Sanskrit Shiksha Board submits that the relief prayed for in this writ application is covered by the aforesaid Division Bench judgment.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties, taking into consideration the nature of prayer made in this writ application, the present writ application is disposed with liberty to the petitioners to file a detailed representation along with copy of the judgment passed in L.P.A. No. 43 of 2016 before the respondent no. 7 / District Programme Officer, Establishment,

Patna High Court CWJC No.6556 of 2025(2) dt.22-04-2025 3/3 Bhojpur, District- Bhojpur within a period of fifteen days.

7. It is made clear that if representation is filed by the petitioners, the same shall be disposed by the respondent no. 7 in the light of the judgment passed in L.P.A. No. 43 of 2016 within a period of three months from the date of filing of the representation.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J) praful/- U