IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15888 of 2010 1. MANJUR ALAM S/O LATE SIDDIQUE HUSSAIN R/O VILL. BANBHAG, P.S. KRITYANAND NAGAR, DIST. PURNIA ---- PETITIONER Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE MINISTER, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND LAND REFORMS, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR MAIN SECRETARIAT BUILDING, PATNA 3. THE COLLECTOR, PURNIA 4. THE SUB DIVISIONAL OFFICER, SADAR, PURNIA 5. THE ANCHAL ADHIKARI AT KRITYANAND NAGAR WITHIN THE DIST. OF PURNIA 6. SHRI ARUN KUMAR PATHAK SON OF LATE NAGESHWAR PATHAK R/O MOHALLA MADHUBANI, P.S. KHAJANCHI HAT, DIST. PURNIA 7. WAJUDDIN SON OF SK. KALIMUDDIN 8. RAJJAK SON OF LAL MOHAMMAD 9. NUSHAD SON OF SAIFUDDIN 10. NOMAN SON OF LAL MOHAMMAD 11. IBRAHIM SON OF KHUDDI 12. SHAN MOHAMMAD SON OF NAZAR MOHAMMAD 13. SALAM SON OF SAJRUDDIN 14. SK. SATTAR SON OF NOT KNOWN NO. 7 TO 14 R/O VILL. AND P.O.DEBI NAGAR P.S. KRITYANAND NAGAR, DIST. PURNIA. --- RESPONDENTS. For the petitioner : Mr. Arun Prasad Ambast, Advocate. For the State : Ms. Kumari Amrita, SC-1(Ceiling) ----------- 04 21.12.2010 Petitioner claims purchase of the certain pieces of land which became subject matter of ceiling proceeding and subsequent to the adjudication made therein was/were declared surplus. In paragraph no.17 of the application the petitioner has stated as under:- “That immediately thereafter the petitioner rushed to Patna and filed an application for reopening of the said Land Ceiling case for exclusion of the lands in question with prayer for stay of dispossession of the petitioner on the basis of which Misc. ceiling case no. 09 of 2006 was registered. For the last four years the case has been pending before the respondent no.2. No order on the prayer for stay of dispossession of the petitioner 2 has been passed. The result is that the settlees have started creating troubles and have been trying to dispossess the petitioner from his houses and the lands. On account of notification of Legislative Assembly Election holding of court by the respondent no.2 has also been stopped.” He has therefore, filed the present writ application for issuance of an appropriate direction to the concerned respondent no.2 for an early disposal of Misc. case no. 09 of 2006, which is said to be pending before the said authority. Learned counsel for the State submits that appropriate direction may be issued in the matter. The application is, therefore being disposed of by the following order:- Let respondent no.2 (Hon’ble Minister, Department of Revenue and Land Reforms, Government of Bihar, Patna) take steps to dispose of the aforesaid proceeding within a reasonable time preferably within 05 months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of the order before him. Petitioner shall produce a copy of the present order before the said respondent within a period of 04 weeks from today. Sym ( Kishore K. Mandal, J.)