Bihar Re-organisation Act, 2000

The appellants, companies engaged in iron and steel production, entered into Memorandums of Understanding with the State Government of Jharkhand for mining leases of iron ore in the Ghatkuri area. The State Government recommended their applications to the Central Government for prior approval. However, upon discovering…

The appellants, who qualified the 6th Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Examination 2016 and were appointed after completing probation, challenged the cancellation of their appointments by the High Court, which had held that Paper‑I marks should be excluded from the merit list and that qualifying marks must be met in e…

Following the bifurcation of Bihar and Jharkhand in 2000, Dr. Chaitraya Kumar Singh, an Ayurvedic Medical Officer, was initially allocated to Jharkhand. In 2010, with the consent of both states, he was re‑allocated to Bihar, but Jharkhand failed to relieve him, so he continued to serve there until his superannuation on…