IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15126 of 2004 MOHAN CHANDRA JHA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 05. 23.01.2009 On 29.11.2007 statement was made at the bar by the learned counsel for the petitioner that as per his information petitioner is dead. But no steps have been taken to file a substitution petition for more than a year. Learned counsel for the State submits that payment claimed by the erstwhile petitioner stands paid as would be evident from the supplementary counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondent No.5. Be that as it may, the writ application is declared to have become infructuous. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)