{"id":150220,"date":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/meena-devi-vs-the-state-of-bihar-ors-on-21-september-2011"},"modified":"2017-05-20T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:53:28","slug":"meena-devi-vs-the-state-of-bihar-ors-on-21-september-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/meena-devi-vs-the-state-of-bihar-ors-on-21-september-2011","title":{"rendered":"Meena Devi vs The State Of Bihar &amp; Ors on 21 September, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Meena Devi vs The State Of Bihar &amp; Ors on 21 September, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>                  IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                      Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11719 of 2011\n\n                  Meena Devi WIFE OF ASHOK PASWAN RESIDENT\n                  OF MAHUAR KHURD, P.S. BUNIYADGANJ,\n                  DISTRICT GAYA\n                                          Versus\n                             The State Of Bihar &amp; Ors\n                             ----------------------------------\n<\/pre>\n<p>2    21\/09\/2011             In absence of any material or rules having been<\/p>\n<p>                    produced before this Court which can demonstrate that<\/p>\n<p>                    the engagement of the petitioner as a cook is by the State<\/p>\n<p>                    in a substantive capacity, any engagement by any<\/p>\n<p>                    authority will not come within the ambit of writ<\/p>\n<p>                    jurisdiction of this Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This writ application is dismissed because the<\/p>\n<p>                    Court cannot exercise or entertain applications of such<\/p>\n<p>                    kind where the Court has no business to delve into the<\/p>\n<p>                    affairs of such engagement i.e. engagement of a Cook by<\/p>\n<p>                    a Vidyalaya Sewa Samiti.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre>    AMIN\/                         (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders Meena Devi vs The State Of Bihar &amp; Ors on 21 September, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11719 of 2011 Meena Devi WIFE OF ASHOK PASWAN RESIDENT OF MAHUAR KHURD, P.S. 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