LAWS(PAT)-1971-6-1

N P MATHUR Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

Decided On June 28, 1971
N.P.MATHUR Appellant
V/S
STATE OF BIHAR Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This writ application has been filed by five members of the Indian Administrative Service, under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. The Original prayer was for a writ, order or direction quashing a notification passed by the Government of Bihar, dated the 26th November 1970, a copy of which has been given as Annexure 2. The notification had declared that Sri Ram Sevak Mandal, Posted as Additional Chief Secretary to the Government, was appointed to work as the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar. (The notification as given in Annexure 2 runs thus:

(2.) It will be convenient to quote the original prayer made in the writ application in its entirety at this stage.

(3.) The State of Bihar has been impleaded as respondent No. 1, Sri Daroga Prasad Roy, the then Chief Minister, Bihar, has been impleaded as respondent No. 2 and Secretary to the Government of Bihar, Appointment Department, has been impleaded as respondent No. 5 (Several members of the Indian Administrative Service, who had originally been impleaded as respondents Nos. 6 to 27 have been expunged from the record and the description of Sri Daroga Prasad Roy has been changed from Chief Minister, Bihar. to ex-Chief Minister, Bihar.).