Appellants challenged a dismissal-as-not-pressed order in a writ petition about data entry operators being required to register with a private company for salary disbursal and unpaid wages. The High Court held that a Letters Patent Appeal was not maintainable and disposed of the appeal accordingly.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Letters Patent Appeal No.124 of 2025
In
Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16402 of 2023
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... ... Appellants
Versus
... ... Respondents
====================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant/s : Mr. Ravish Mishra, Advocate For the State : Mr. Additional Advocate General (9) For the Resp. Nos.3 & 4 : Mr. K.K. Sinha, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE and HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER
counsel for the respondents.
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C.W.J.C. No. 16402 of 2023 reads as follows:
“The present writ petition has been filed seeking the following relief(s):-
“1. That the present writ application is being filed for issuance of Writ in the nature of Certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order, direction, quashing the Letter No. 127 dated 27.01.2022 (Annexure 3), issued by the Respondent No.5, whereby the Petitioners have been directed to get registered themselves with Urmila International Services Private Limited, failing which the Petitioners shall be restrain from discharging their duties. The Petitioners further prays for consequential writ of Mandamus, commanding the Respondent authorities, especially the Respondent No. 4 and 5 to forthwith allow the Petitioners to work as Date Entry Operators, in view of the fact that now it is not necessary for the Data Entry Operators, working with the Health Society to get themselves registered with the aforesaid Private Company for disbursement of salary, rather the Health Department is directly sending funds to the respective Health Societies for making payment of salaries to the operator and also pay full remuneration to the Petitioners from September 2021 to January 2022 i.e. the period during which the Petitioners discharged their duties, however they were not paid their remuneration. The Petitioners in
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alternative prays for a direction upon the Respondent No.4 to decide the detail Representation of the Petitioners dated 03.08.2023 sent through speed post.”
2. At the outset, the learned counsel for the petitioners seeks not to press the present writ petition, however, seeks liberty on behalf of the petitioners to approach the respondentauthorities for redressal of their aforesaid grievances. Liberty so sought is granted.
3. The writ petition stands dismissed as not pressed.”
(Meenakshi Madan Rai, CJ)
(Soni Shrivastava, J)
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1 issue framed by the court
Whether a Letters Patent Appeal is maintainable against an order dismissing a writ petition as not pressed with liberty to approach the authorities?
Ranvijay Tiwari
Jitendra Kumar alias Jitendra Kumar Giri
The State of Bihar through the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Health
The State Health Society, through its Executive Director
The Secretary, State Health Society
The District Magistrate cum President, District Health Society, Kaimur at Bhabua
Meenakshi Madan Rai
Soni Shrivastava
As recorded by the court registry
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