IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.3762 of 2010 Kanhaiya Prasad Sinha, Principal of S.B. College, Ara………………………Contemnor-Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar & ors…….Opposite Parties. ----------- For the Petitioner: Mr. Y.V. Giri, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Advocate For the University: Mr. Vinay Kirti Singh, Advocate 3 19.01.2011 This contempt proceeding was drawn by this Court by order dated 25.08.2010 passed in MJC No.2823 of 2008 against Mr. Kanhaiya Prasad Sinha, Principal of S.B. College, Ara, in the light of the stand of the University that for compliance of the orders of this Court passed in the writ matter, repeated letters had been sent to him to submit revised pay bills of the writ petitioners which he had not submitted and thus, he was hampering compliance of the orders of this Court at the end of the University. Show cause filed earlier in the contempt matter by him was not accepted by this Court and, therefore, the proceeding was drawn. Now show cause has been filed in this proceeding also, in which, apart from giving some explanation in respect of his conduct, it is stated that he was 2 not a party in the writ matter and was not also party in the contempt, hence he did not get information with regard to the orders of this Court and pendency of the proceeding directly. So far as his response of the letters of the University is concerned, the explanation is not satisfactory. Though the letters of the University show that they were issued to him with specific reference to the orders passed by this court in the writ matter, the contemnor was not vigilant in responding to the same and took the letters in routine manner. However, in his show cause, the contemnor has tendered unqualified apology and has submitted the revised pay bills of the petitioners and the University has released the amount of bills to all of them except petitioner no.2 in whose connection some information is still lacking. Considering the show cause filed by the contemnor, this Court refrains from passing any order of punishment against the contemnor and drops the proceeding 3 with condition that he will bear the cost of appearance and travelling to Patna and for attending this Court in connection with this case from his own pocket. BT (J. N. Singh, J.)