ORDER

1.Theapplication prays that contempt proceedings be taken against the Commissioner, Department of Health, in the Government of Bihar for failing to comply with the directions of the Patna High Court contained in its judgment dated June 14, 1983, passed in a writ petition filed by the petitioners, whereby the High Court directed that the vacant positions occupied by ad hoc appointees of the years 1979 and 1981 as well as posts which might have fallen vacant or be otherwise available should be filled up on a regular basis through the Public Service Commission by open advertisement, and that the vacancies should be so filled within six months from the date of the judgment. This was subject to the proviso that the government could make ad hoc appointments during the interim period if it considered it absolutely urgent and necessary as a stop gap measure it was made specifically clear by the High Court that all the ad hoc appointments made in the years 1979 and 1981 subsisting then or to be made as permitted by it would stand automatically terminated if the government did not fill up those vacancies on a substantive basis within a period of six months from the date of the said jud