JUDGMENT :

[Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.]

1. It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the appellant that the respondent nos.2 and 3, the respondents in the writ petition, have been impleaded as proforma respondent nos.1 and 2.

It has further been submitted that their names may be deleted on the basis of the fact that the erstwhile bank, namely, Vananchal Gramin Bank has been merged into Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank, therefore, an interlocutory application being I.A. No.754 of 2021 was filed seeking therein leave of this Court to implead Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank as respondent no.3.

The aforesaid interlocutory application was allowed by the learned Single Judge vide order dated 22.02.2021 by impleading Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank through its Chairman as respondent no.3.

Learned counsel for the appellant, therefore, submits that since the functionaries who have been impleaded as respondent nos.2 and 3 were the functionaries of the Vananchal Gramin Bank and after its merger with the Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank, they are no more necessary parties.

2. The assertion so made has not been disputed by the learned counsel for the respondent-writ petitioner.

3. Considering the aforesaid fa