2026:JHHC:2837 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI W.P.(S) No. 5770 of 2015 1. Vinod Kumar son of late Gobardhan Mahato resident of Sector 2/A, Qr. No. 3/142, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, P.O. and P.S. Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, District- Bokaro. 2. Dilip Kumar son of Shankar Mandal resident of Sector 4/A, Qr. No. 1100, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, P.O. and P.S. Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, District- Bokaro. 3. Sanjay Kumar Bouri son of Fagu Bouri, resident of VIII Satanpur, P.O. and P.S. Sector 12, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, District- Bokaro. 4. Manoj Kumar Mahato son of Hare Krishna Mahato resident of VIII P.B. Area Putki, P.O.-Kusunda, P.S. Putki, District- Dhanbad. 5. Mantosh Kumar Rai son of Dhirendra Nath Rai resident of Kumirduba, P.O. and P.S.-Kumirduba, Chandankiyari, District- Dhanbad. 6. Dhiren Kumar Shankar son of Mathura Modi resident of village Warnwal, P.O. and P.S.-Jodhadih More, Chas, District- Bokaro. 7. Sunil Kumar Mandal son of Abani Kumar Mandal resident of Sector 9/B, Sector 12, Qr. No. 413, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, P.O. and P.S.- Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, District- Bokaro. 8. Sunil Kumar son of Narmadeshwar Pandey resident of House No. 34, Road No. 2, Viveknagar, Chota Govindpur, Town- Jamshedpur, P.O. and P.S.-Chota Govindpur, District- East Singhbhum. ... … Petitioner(s) Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand. 2. The Principal Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Rani Kothi, Nepal House, P.O. and P.S. -Doranda, District-Ranchi, Jharkhand. 3. The Project Director, National Rural Health Mission, Department of Health and family Welfare, Govt. of Jharkhand, Namkum, P.O. and P.S.- Namkum, District- Ranchi. 4. The Deputy Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Rani Kothi, Nepal House, P.O. and P.S. Doranda, District- Ranchi, Jharkhand. 5. The Joint Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Rani Kothi, Nepal House, P.O. and P.S.-Doranda, District- Ranchi, Jharkhand. 6. The Director-in-Chief, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, The Directorate, Namkum, P.O. and P.S.- Namkum, District- Ranchi, Jharkhand. 7. The Controller of Examination, Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission, F-49/50, Sector III, Dhurwa, PO & PS-Dhurwa, Ranchi … Respondent(s) 2026:JHHC:2837 2 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Aaysh Avant Srivastava, Advocate Mr. Pratyush Shounikya, Advocate For the Respondent(s) : Mr. Sanjoy Piprawall, Advocate Ms. Amrita Banerjee, AC to GP-I -------- Order No. 14 /Dated: 3rd February 2026 The instant writ application was initially preferred by the petitioners making two-fold prayers; primarily for quashing the advertisement dated 07.11.2015 for appointment of Nurses Grade-A, ANM, Pharmacist and Medical and Lab Assistant and secondly regularize the services of the petitioners. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners may be regularized in view of the fact that the State is having a proper policy of regularization which came in the year 2015 and further amended in the year 2019. As such he submits that the instant writ application may be disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to approach the respondent no.2. 3. Learned counsel for the respondents submits that now the petitioners are not harping on quashing of the advertisement; even he cannot do so now because the advertisement was cancelled. Accordingly, so far as regularization is concerned, the petitioners may approach respondent no.2. 4. Having regard to the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and also in view of the fact that the State of Jharkhand is having regularization policy which came in the year 2015 and further amended in the year 2019, any of the petitioners would be at liberty to approach the 2nd Respondent for regularization of their services by filing representation(s) as early as possible but not beyond a period of ten weeks from today. If any such representation(s) is received, the same shall be dealt with in accordance with regularization policy and appropriate order shall be passed in respect of the petitioners who approach the concerned 2026:JHHC:2837 3 respondents within a further period of 12 weeks. 5. With the aforesaid observations, the instant writ application stands disposed of. Pending I.As, if any, also stand disposed of. (Deepak Roshan, J.) 3rd February 2026 Amit Uploaded on 13/03/2026