IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18174 of 2023 ======================================================

Sarita Kumari Wife of Shri Balister Kumar Baitha, Resident of Village-Behari Bankatwa, Ward No. 10, Police Station-Sikta, District-West Champaran at Bettiah.

... ... Petitioner/s Versus

1. The State of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Patna.

2. The Additional Chief Secretary cum the Principal Secretary, Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna.

3. The Director Integrated Child Development Services, Bihar, Patna.

4. The Divisional Commissioner, Tirhut Division, Muzaffarpur.

5. The District Magistrate, West Champaran at Bettiah.

6. The District Programme Officer, Integrated Child Development Services, West Champaran at Bettiah.

7. The Child Development Project Officer, Sikta, District-West Champaran at Bettiah.

8. The Lady Supervisor, Sikta, District-West Champaran at Bettiah.

9. The Ward Member Ward No. 10, Gram Panchayat Suryapur, Anchal-Sikta, District-West Champaran at Bettiah.

10. Renu Devi, Wife of Hiralal Baitha, Resident of Village-Behari Bankatwa, Police Station-Sikta, District-West Champaran at Bettiah.

... ... Respondent/s ======================================================

Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Umesh Kumar Mishra, Advocate For the Res. No. 10- : Mr.Manoj Kumar, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr.Anant Prasad Singh, SC- 15 ======================================================

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RITESH KUMAR

ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 13-02-2026 Heard the parties.

2. The present writ petition has been filed for the following reliefs:-

“(i) For issuance an appropriate writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the order dated 19.01.2023 passed by the District Programme Officer, ICDS, West Chamapran, Bettiah in Appeal Case No. 186/2021 (Renu Devi vs. Sarita Kumari and Others) by which, he has cancelled the selection of the petitioner as Aanganwadi Sevika and directed the Child Development Project Officer, Sikta, West Champaran, Bettiah for initiating a fresh process for recruitment of Aanganwadi Sevika at Centre No. 107, Ward No. 10, Gram Panchayat Suryapur holding that the selection of the petitioner has been done on the basis of wrong mapping, as the concerned Lady Supervisor has not prepared the survey mapping as per the guidelines issued by the department, without considering the fact that earlier the mapping register was prepared by the Lady Supervisor Sikta and on the basis of the same, it has been found that ward no. 10 has the class majority of scheduled caste and thereafter the advertisement was published in which the petitioner being the most suitable candidate was selected and it is not a dispute that the aforesaid Ward No. 10 has the class majority of scheduled caste which can be verified and earlier the Child Development Project Officer, Sikta, West Champaran at Bettiah has rejected the case filed by the private respondent Renu Devi, in which, she has considered all these facts and held the selection of the petitioner to be valid and genuine.

(ii) For issuance an appropriate writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the order dated 25.09.2023 passed by the Divisional Commissioner, Tirhut Division, Muzaffarupur in ICDS Case No. 45/2023 (Sarita Kumari vs. the District Programme Officer, West Champaran, Bettiah), by which, the case filed by the petitioner against the order of the District Programme Officer, ICDS, West Champaran, Bettiah has been rejected on the same and similar grounds of wrong mapping register, without considering the true facts and circumstances of the case of the petitioner as also without making any verification with regard to the class majority in Ward No. 10, Sikta, District West Champaran.

(iii) For issuance of an appropriate writ in the nature mandamus for commanding and directing the respondent authorities to consider the case of the petitioner for his reinstatement on the post of Aanganwadi Sevika in Ward