RAMCHANDRA RAVIDAS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AS all these cases relate to appointment of Technical Assistants in the Animal Husbandry and Fishery Department and similar orders of termination are under challenge, they were admitted for hearing, heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

(2.) PETITIONERS in all the three writ petitions have challenged the order, contained in Letter No. 5530 dated 23rd October, 1998, whereby and whereunder. the respondent State of Bihar directed the Director, Animal Husbandry, Bihar. Patna to terminate the services of those Technical Assistants who were appointed illegally. Petitioner Ramesh Kumar Singh of CWJC No. 3639 of 2000 (R) has further challenged the consequential order, contained in Letter No. 4821 dated 16th September, 2000, whereby and whereunder the Director, Animal Husbandry, Bihar, Patna, giving reference to the order contained in Letter No. 5530 dated 23rd October, 1998, directed the Regional Director, Animal Husbandry Ranchi/Dumka, to terminate the services of those Technical Assistants who were appointed illegally.

(3.) FROM the letters of appointment as enclosed and discussed, it will be evident that the petitioners were not appointed on regular basis. Their appointments were ad -hoc in nature till the regular appointment was to be made or until final decision as was to be taken by me Headquarters. In the impugned Letter No. 5530 dated 23rd October 1998 the respondents have shown the following grounds, while ordered to cancel the illegal appointments :