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NANO KISHORE OJHA versus ANJANI KUMAR SINGH

Citation: [2010] 6 S.C.R. 133 · Decided: 12-05-2010 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: ALTAMAS KABIR · Disposal: Hearing Adjourned

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[2010] 6 S.C.R. 161 
NANO KISHORE OJHA 
A 
V. 
ANJANI KUMAR SINGH 
(Contempt Petition (C) No.297 of 2007) 
IN 
Special Leave Petition (C) No.22882 of 2004 
B 
MAY 12, 2010 
[ALTAMAS KABIR AND H.L. DATIU, JJ.] 
Contempt of Court: 
C 
Breach of undertaking given before Court - Orders dated 
23.1.2006 and 9.12.2009 passed by Supreme Court on. the. 
basis of undertaking given by State of Bihar to fill up the 
vacancies of Primary School Teachers by appointing trained 
0 
teachers available in the State - Contempt petition filed 
alleging breach of. the undertaking - Stand of the state that 
Rules have been framed to give effect to the undertaking 
given by the State and the orders passed by Supreme Court 
- Held: It was never the intention of the Court that the 
E 
conditions of the advertisement itself, which had been struck 
down by the High Court, were to be followed by the State 
Government - The advertisement was referred to only for the 
purpose of determining the number of vacancies which would 
be required to be filled up from amongst the trained teachers 
F 
- It was made clear that all the 34, 450 posts were to be filled 
up with trained teachers who were waiting for appointment, in 
order of seniority - The question of keeping some of the posts 
vacant on account of non-availability of reserved candidates 
was never the criterion in the order passed by the Court on 
9. 12. 2009 - What was intended was that, after the number of G 
candidates from the reserved category had been 
accommodated, the rest of the posts were to be filled up from 
amongst the candidates from the general category- It is once 
again directed that the said 34,540 posts, which have been ยท 
161 
H 
162 
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2010] 6 S.C.R. 
A created, be filled up from amongst the trained teachers in order 
of seniority after providing for appointment of candidates 
belonging to the reserved category as a one-time measure 
as indicated in earlier orders as also mentioned in the 
additional affidavit affirmed on behalf of the State 
B Government - Matter adjourned for filing of compliance report 
- Bihar Special Elementary Teachers' Recruitment Rules, 
2010 -
Service Law - Appointment of Primary School 
Teachers. 
C 
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION : Contempt Petition 
(C) No. 297 of 2007. 
IN 
SLP (C) No. 22882 of 2004. 
D 
From the Judgment & Order dated 01.07.2004 of the High 
Court of Judicature at Patna in CWJC Nos. 13246, 6661 of 
2003, 1533, 1788, 1789, 1861 & 5053 of 2004. 
Paramjeet Singh Patwalia, Ramesh P. Bhatt, Rakesh 
Uttamchandra Upadhyay, Abhijeet Kakoti, Ankur Panda, Brij 
E Bhusan, Sunil Kumar, Chandan Ramamurti, Dharam Bir Raj 
Vohra, K.N. Rai, D. Kishor, S.N. Roy, K.Kumar, Lakshmi 
Raman Singh, M.P. Jha, Ram Ekbal Roy, Harshvardhan Jha, 
Syed Ali Ahmad, Syed Tanweer Ahmed, Mohd. Shahnawaz 
Hasan, S.S. Bandyopadhyay, Mohan Pandey, S.K. Sabharwal, 
F Shree Pal Singh, M.K. Michael, Amukesh Verma, Aftab Alam, 
Pawan Shukla, Yash Pal Dhingra, Revathy Raghavan, Ramjee 
Prasad, E.C. Vidya Sagar, D.K. Thakur, D. Jha, Debasis Misra, 
Barun Kr. Sinha, Pratibha Sinha, B.K. Satija, Prashant 
Chaudhary, Subhro Sanyal, Kumud Lata Das, Ambhoj Kumar 
G Sinha, Shekhar Prit Jha, Abhijit Sengupta, Kanhaiya Priyadarsi, 
Ajay Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Jitender Pandey, Venkateswara 
Rao Anumolu, P.V. Yogeswaran, Praneet Ranjan, Shashi 
Bhushan Kumar, Gaurav Agrawal Jitendra Kumar, Amit Pawan, 
Vikash Verma, Devashish Bharuka, Santosh Kumar, Milind 
H Kumar, Santosh Kumar Tripathi, Arup Banerjee, Rajeev Kumar, 
NANO KISHORE OJHA v. ANJANI KUMAR SINGH 
163 
R.K. Prasad, Abhishek Atrey, Mithilesh Kumar Singh, 
A 
Dharmendra Kishor, Mohit Kumar Shah, Chandan Kumar, G.V. 
Rao, Ashok Kr. Upadhyay, P.N. Jha, Umesh Kumar, lmran 
Khan, Firasat AH, Ram Swarup Sharma for the petitioner. 
P.K. Shahi, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, L. Nageshwar 
8 
Rao, Santosh Kumar, Rajeev Katiyan, Sachida Nand Singh, 
Mushtaq Ahmad, R.K. Ranjan, Anilendra Pandey, Priya 
Kashyap, Dr. Kailash Chand, Prem Sunder Jha, S.K. Sinha, 
In-Person, Dhruv Kumar Jha, Bijan Kumar Ghosh, Shalini 
Chandra, Swati Chandra, Anil Ku~ar Tandale, Subramonium 
C 
Prasad, Vishwajit Singh Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Akshay 
Shukla, Dinesh Kr. nwari, C.P.Yadav, Syed Md.--Rafi,_\l.S~-
. Mishra, N.N. Jha, Monika Kalra, Ram Ekbal Roy, Rameshwar 
Prasad Goyal, T. Mahipal, Pratap Shanker, Swetank Shantanu, 
Aniruddha P. Mayee, M.M. Singh Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, 
Vishnu Sharma, Anupama Sharma, Amarjyoti Sharma, 
D 

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