LAL BAHADUR SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE SECRETARY, HOUSING DEPARTMENT, THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, BIHAR STATE HOUSING BOARD AND THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, JHARKHAND STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Dr. S.N. Pathak, learned Counsel for the petitioner and JC to G.A., State of Bihar as also Mrs. I. Sen, Choudhary counsel for the Respondent Jharkhand Housing Board.

(2.) THE petitioner in this writ application, has prayed for issuance of a direction upon the respondents to regularize his services in the Housing Department, Bihar which issue has been pending since 1989 and to pay him the retiral dues by way of his pension, gratuity and unutilized leave salary on the basis of the benefits which may accrue upon regularization of his services.

(3.) THE grievance of the petitioner is that service of his colleague Hussain Ahmad, who was junior to him in the gradation list and employed in the same Awas Board, was regularized by the State Government along with 21 other employees on 18.11.1989 (Annexure -4) with effect from 22.10.1984, but the case of the petitioner was not considered without any genuine reason.