Shailesh Kumar Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.1845 of 2017 ====================================================== Shailesh Kumar Manjhi, Son of Mukhchand Manjhi, Resident of VillageVishunpura Kothi, P.O.P.S. Sidhwaliya, District- Gopalganj. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar 2.

The Principal Secretary, Animal Husbandry Department, Government of Bihar, Patna.

3.

The Director Animal Husbandry Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Jitendra Kumar Shrivastwa For the Respondent/s :

Mr. Sajid Salim Khan, SC-25 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 18-04-2019 Heard Mr. Jitendra Kumar Shrivastwa, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Sajid Salim Khan, learned counsel for the State.

The petitioner seeks regularization in service on the ground that he has worked in the Animal Husbandry Department till about 1996.

From going through the averments made in the petition and the counter affidavit, it appears that all efforts were made by the respondent/State to inquire and collect information with respect to the services of the petitioner in the Department of Animal Husbandry.

Patna High Court CWJC No.1845 of 2017(3) dt.18-04-2019 2/2 According to the claim of the petitioner, he last worked at Hazaribagh in the Piggery Division of the Animal Husbandry Department.

In the writ petition, no evidence or proof has been furnished with respect to the petitioner having worked on casual basis in the Animal Husbandry Department. Otherwise also, the petitioner stopped working from the year 1996 and has approached this Court for regularization of his services in the year 2017.

In the absence of any material, much less cogent material, to come to the conclusion that the petitioner had ever worked in the Animal Husbandry Department and for the claim of the petitioner for regularization to be an absolutely stale one, there is no option for this Court but to dismiss the writ petition in limine.

Writ petition is dismissed, but with no order as to costs.

(Ashutosh Kumar, J) skm/- U