STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. BIJAY KUMAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Respondents herein were appointed on ad hoc basis in Frozen Semen Bank Project as Technical Assistants in the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Government of Bihar. The said appointments were made by the Regional Director, Animal Husbandry, Ranchi.

(3.) In the year 1996, a scam known as Fodder Scam came to light and all unauthorized appointments were declared illegal by the State, inter alia, on the premise :