Bihar Service Code, 1952

Gopal Prasad, appointed as Calligraphist‑cum‑Assistant of the Bihar School Examination Board in May 1970 at the age of 15½, was retired in May 2012 on the ground that he had completed 42 years of qualifying service, despite the statutory retirement age being 60 years. The Board had earlier resolved in 2004 to treat the…

Madan Mohan Choudhary, an Additional District & Sessions Judge, was compulsorily retired by the State of Bihar after the High Court, on the basis of an anticipatory bail order he had granted in a Section 307 IPC case, recommended his retirement. The High Court’s Standing Committee and Full Court recorded adverse remark…

The Supreme Court examined whether the Bihar State Government could, by executive order, merge the cadre of District Engineers (part of the Rural Engineering Organisation, created by a 1965 executive order) with the cadre of Executive Engineers governed by the statutory Bihar Engineering Service Rules, 1939. The appell…