(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE I. A. ANSARI)

1. This Letters Patent Appeal has arisen out of the judgment and order, dated 11.09.2013, passed in C.W.J.C.No.4270 of 2006, whereby the writ petitioner-appellant’s application, made under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking issuance of appropriate writ or writs commanding the respondents to pay the admitted dues/fees of the petitioner-appellant for the work, which the petitioner-appellant had done, in his capacity as the then Government Pleader, Civil Court, Patna, stands rejected.

2. We have heard Mr. Nawal Kishore Singh, learned counsel for the appellant, and Mr. Lalit Kishore, learned Principal Additional Advocate General, appearing for the State.

3. The facts, which have given rise to the present appeal, may, in brief, be set out as under:

(i) The appellant herein, as petitioner, in CWJC No.4270 of 2006, was appointed, on 23.08.1996, as a Government Pleader for the Civil Court, Patna, and conducted cases, on behalf of the State Government, in the civil courts accordingly. When the bills, which the petitioner-appellant had raised and submitted, for payment, to the Collector, Patna, were turned down by the respo