PATNA, India, Aug. 21 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on July 22:

The present appeal has been filed under Clause-X, Appendix-E of the Letters Patent of Patna High Court Rules by the appellants who are original respondent nos.4 and 5 in the writ petition. The appellants are aggrieved by the direction issued by the learned Single Judge to make payment of Rs.28,45,790/- to the original petitioner.

2. The factual matrix of the present case is as under:

2.1 The present opponent no.1 is the original writ petitioner which had preferred the petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India before the learned Single Judge in which the writ petitioner prayed that the writ of mandamus be issued commanding the respondents to ...