Patna HC directs to reinstate 1,000 terminated staff

 Patna High Court ordered the Bihar government to reinstate about 1,000 employees of state health department, who were earlier terminated on grounds of illegal appointment.



Justice Mridula Mishra ordered the state government after hearing the petition of the affected staff.



They pleaded before the court that the government was acting in an arbitrary manner for complying with the earlier directive issued by division bench of the high court comprising the then Chief Justice J N Bhatt and Justice Shiv Kirti Singh in 2006.



The counsel of the petitioner submitted before the court that Justice Narain Rai had directed the Bihar government in 2003 to reinstate about 4,000 Class Three and Class Four employees, who were terminated on the ground of irregular and illegal appointment even long period of service.



Complying with the directive of Patna High Court, the Bihar government reinstated 3,000 such employees and left about 1,000 of them ‘at the mercy of God’.



Peeved over the approach of the state government towards them, about 1000 employees moved Patna High Court again and a division bench of the then Chief Justice J N Bhatt and Justice Shiv Kirti Singh directed the state government to reinstate such employees who were terminated on the ground of their irregular appointments.