SANTOSH KUMAR MONDAL Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Mr. R.S. Mazum -dar, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. K.K. Singh, learned JC to AAG.

(2.) IN this writ application the petitio -ners have prayed for quashing the Officer order dated 16.5.1997 issued under the signature of District Education Officer. Dhanbad whereby petitioners have been removed from the service and their salary have been stopped.

(3.) I have perused the judgment and order passed in CWJC No. 1846/93R, copy of which has been annexed as Annexure -6 to the writ application. In that case, the writ petitioners were appointed pursuant to the advertisement and their names were forwarded by the Employment Exchange. A Selection Committee was constituted who after taking interview of those petitioners, prepared a panel on the basis of which appointments were made. Their Lordships held in that case that when the appointment was made after due advertisement and after names were forwarded by Employment Exchange and when selection was made by the Selection Committee then appointments can not be said to be illegal. In the instant case, petitioners have stated that they were appointed after due advertisement. For better appreciation paras 5 and 6 of the writ application are quoted herein below : - -