Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000

Indradeo Paswan, a Deputy Director (Mines) in the undivided State of Bihar, was promoted to Additional Director (Mines) and filed a writ petition for final promotion. While the petition was pending, Bihar was bifurcated under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, creating the State of Jharkhand. Although Paswan exercised…

The appellant, a Cooperative Development Officer appointed under the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category in undivided Bihar, was transferred to the successor State of Jharkhand after the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. He applied for promotion to Deputy Collector through a limited departmental examination that required a cas…

Purushottam Kumar Jha, appointed as a Field Clerk on compassionate grounds by the State of Bihar in 1996, was provisionally transferred to the newly created State of Jharkhand after the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. He claimed he was actually a Law Officer/Legal Assistant, refused clerical duties, and alleged that th…

The State of Jharkhand terminated the services of several ad‑hoc Assistant Engineers who had been employed continuously since 1987, alleging their appointments were irregular. The employees challenged the termination, invoking the principle from Secretary, State of Karnataka v. Umadevi that employees who have rendered …

The Bihar Hill Area Lift Irrigation Corporation (BHALCO), a government company of Bihar, was transferred to the newly created Jharkhand Hill Area Lift Irrigation Corporation (JHALCO) after the bifurcation of Bihar under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. Employees of the erstwhile BHALCO filed writ petitions seeking a…

The case concerned employees who were serving in the undivided State of Bihar before its bifurcation into Bihar and Jharkhand under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. The petitioners, members of SC/ST/OBC, claimed that their reservation benefits should continue in Jharkhand, where they were now resident, and that they…

The appellant State of Jharkhand challenged a High Court order that had granted a compassionate appointment to Shiv Karpal Sahu, whose father, a non‑government employee, was killed in a terrorist attack on 19 May 2000. The High Court had applied circulars issued by the Bihar Government (9 Aug 2000) and the Jharkhand Go…

Ashok Kumar and others were appointed as Civil Judges under the Jharkhand Judicial Service (Recruitment) Rules, 2004. Although they passed the examination conducted by the Judicial Academy, the State of Jharkhand denied their confirmation and increments on the ground that they had not cleared the higher‑grade Hindi dep…

The respondents, who were Functional Managers in the erstwhile State of Bihar, were recommended for promotion to General Manager/Deputy Director by a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) on 15 February 1999. After the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 bifurcated Bihar and created the State of Jharkhand, the respondents …

The Supreme Court examined whether sales‑tax exemption/deferment granted to cement manufacturers under the Madhya Pradesh Commercial Tax Act, 1994, would continue to apply after the bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Madhya Pradesh into the reorganised State of Madhya Pradesh and the new State of Chhattisgarh. The C…

The State of Bihar filed a criminal appeal against an FIR lodged in 2002 against IAS officer Ashok Kumar Singh for alleged corruption while he was Managing Director of the Bihar State Financial Corporation. The FIR was issued by the Bihar Vigilance Investigation Bureau after the bifurcation of Bihar into Bihar and Jhar…

The Supreme Court entertained a public‑interest writ petition alleging that numerous Bihar‑owned public sector undertakings had failed to pay salaries for years, leading to starvation deaths and suicides of employees and their families. The petition sought directions for payment of arrears and held the State of Bihar l…

The respondents, former security guards of the Patratu Thermal Power Station, were dismissed in 1975 and filed a civil suit in Patna in 1979 seeking reinstatement, which the trial court allowed. The Bihar State Electricity Board appealed, and the appeal was heard by the Additional District Judge, Patna, and later by th…

The case arose from the division of the original State of Bihar into Bihar and Jharkhand under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, which created the Jharkhand Hill Area Lift Irrigation Corporation (JHALCO) to take over the Bihar Hill Area Lift Irrigation Corporation (BHALCO). Employees of BHALCO alleged non‑payment of …

The Supreme Court considered whether the sales‑tax exemption granted to industrial units under Bihar’s 1995 Industrial Policy (S.O. 478 dated 22‑12‑1995) survived the bifurcation of Bihar and the creation of Jharkhand. The Court held that Sections 84 and 85 of the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 expressly continue all l…

The Supreme Court examined whether 36 fodder‑scam cases, originally filed before the Special Court in Patna, were transferred to courts in the newly created State of Jharkhand under Section 89 of the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. The Court held that the word “exclusively” in that provision means “substantially all or…

The case concerned the applicability of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 to the newly created State of Jharkhand after the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. The petitioners challenged a Jharkhand Government notification that sought fresh registration of pharmacists under Section 31 of the Act, arguing that the First Register prepa…

The Pharmacy Council of India challenged the constitution of a Registration Tribunal by the newly formed State of Chhattisgarh under Section 30 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948, which was intended to prepare a new First Register of pharmacists and to renew registrations of pharmacists already listed in the First Register of t…