Every Maithil should read this

100⁺ years of Betrayal.
Do you still have faith in Bihar ? If yes, then Do go through this article carefully.

• Those were the days, when state sponsored Anti-Maithili waves were moving around.
• Recruitment of Maithili teachers were stopped.
• Teaching of Maithili subject was discontinued from the schools.
• Syllabus for Maithili subject were made more difficult and equally larger, which deviated our people to drop this subject.
• In board exams, Copies of Maithili used to be sent to Bhojpur region for checking. There the narrow-minded examiner failed our students.
• There are n number of cases, where Maithili-Opting-Students were threatened, ill-treated, punished, failed, tagged Bhasha-vadi and given mental torture.
• Water touched the nose, when Maithili subject was discontinued from BPSC exams.

Late Dr. Jaikant Mishra filed a case against this in Patna High Court.

Snap-Shot from HC-Patna website, showing details of the case.

Courtesy: Patna High Court Website. Click here to view in on the HC website.

Dr. Mishra had filed a writ petition in the Patna High Court, CWJC-7505/1998 against the Government of Bihar, on 3 September 1998. The judgement was ruled against the Government of Bihar on 26 September 2002. Against that, the Government of Bihar, headed by Mrs. Rabri Devi, appealed in Supreme Court.

Copy of Judgement by HC-Patna

Disclaimer: Some text of the document is missing

Bihar government made a civil appeal (CIVIL APPEAL NO(s). 7266 OF 2004) in the Supreme Court. Mr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Gopal Singh were the advocates from the Bihar government side. Mr. Vijayendra Mishra and Mr. Anil Kumar Jha were the advocates from Dr. Jayakant Mishra side.

Snap-Shot form the SC website, showing case details.

SC Judgement Copy. Appeal was dismissed

Copy of SC judgement can be Downloaded here.
Judgement can be viewed online here.

On 30 September 2010, The Supreme court (Court no.9) in its judgment, rejected the appeal of Bihar government and the Judgment of HC-Patna was continued and accepted by both the parties. The judgment was ruled out by Justice Mr. B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice Mr. Surinder Songh Nijjar.

The Bihar govt has withdrawn few other similar cases (like Civil Appeal No(s). 2203-2208 of 2001). It clearly indicates that the Bihar govt has understood that Mithila & Maithili can’t be kept under suppression any more.

So, after one year of winning the case, Where do we stand now ? Have all the problems (pointed in Para 2) been settled ?

The answer is NO. We did get justice on papers, but not in practical. The story of betrayal may go endless. However, I choose to end here.