A court ordered an investigation into the deaths of more than 1,400 government employees in eastern Bihar State, most of whom died of starvation or committed suicide because they had not been paid in more than a decade. The federal Central Bureau of Investigations will conduct the inquiry. ''The state government created such conditions that forced the 1,428 employees to die or commit suicide,'' the court said, charging that state officials responsible for running 45 public sector units stole money meant for the employees, causing many of the units to close down. ''It is a strange paradox that while the state officials of the undertakings made merry in foreign trips and big hotels, the employees died of starvation,'' it said.