Manoj Kumar Roy v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: NHM HR; contractual Lab Technician; honorarium/remuneration payment discrepancy; State Health Society Bihar; District Health Society (Tuberculosis) Vaishali; committee per Annexure-R-3/3; six-month deadline; communication and publication of committee decision including website; liberty to challenge committee decision before appropriate forum; petitioners regularised/withdrawn during pendency. Disposition: writ petition disposed of (neither allowed nor dismissed). Relevant to searches on State Health Society pay-discrepancy committees and post-decision recourse for contractual health-sector staff.
What did the court decide?
Court directions to the State Health Society's Committee (framed per Annexure-R-3/3): complete its work within six months, hear the petitioners' individual objections, communicate its decision to the petitioners and publish it in the public domain including the Society's website; liberty granted to all aggrieved petitioners, expressly including those who had withdrawn their writ petitions, to challenge the Committee's decision before the appropriate forum.