Basant Kumar Tiwari @ Bashant Kumar Tiwari v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Third ACP MACP payment from 01.07.2019; arrears of salary; pension fixation on upgraded scale; exemption from computer proficiency test; consequential benefits; representation to Engineer-in-Chief Rural Works Department Bihar (respondent no. 2); decide/dispose within two months; reasoned order if rejected; Patna High Court CWJC No.1646 of 2026 dated 05-02-2026; Partha Sarthy, J; petitioner Basant Kumar Tiwari @ Bashant Kumar Tiwari; respondents include State of Bihar Rural Works Department, Executive Engineers Gopalganj and Hatuwa, District Magistrate Gopalganj, Superintending Engineer Siwan; writ disposed of without merits adjudication.
What did the court decide?
Writ application disposed of with directions: petitioner to submit a representation to respondent no. 2 (Engineer-in-Chief, Rural Works Department) within four weeks; representation to be decided within two months with consequential benefits found payable paid within that period; reasoned order to be communicated if the representation is rejected. No merits adjudication of the ACP/MACP or computer proficiency test claims was made by the court.