IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.8726 of 2005 1. Bhupendra Prasad Shrivastava son of Haribansh Lal, resident of village Koransarai, Post Office Koransarai, District-Buxar. 2. Jawahar Lal son of late Musaphir Singh, resident of village and post office Koransarai, District Buxar. 3. Ganesh Prasad Singh Son of Ramchandra Singh, resident of village and Post Office-Koransarai, District-Buxar. 4. Vijoy Kumar Gupta son of Ram Pravesh Sah, resident of village and Post Office-Koransarai, District-Buxar. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Collector, Buxar. 3. The Bihar State Board of Religious Trust, Bidyapati Marg, Patna, through its Chairman. 4. The Anchal Adhikari, Dumraon, Buxar. 5. Shri Jagdish Prasad Gupta, Vice President cum- Treasurer of Ram Janki Mandir, resident of village and Post Koran Sarai, District-Buxar 6. Shri Bijendra Singh son of Sudarshan Singh, resident of village and Post Office Nawadih, District- Buxar. 7. Shri Jitendra Kumar son of Shri Ram Lal Singh, resident of village and Post Office Koran Sarai, District- Buxar. 8. Shri Pramod Kumar son of Shri Jagnarain resident of village and Post Piro District-Bhojpur. 9. Shri Vijai Sah Son of Shri Dashrath Sah, resident of Village and post office Koran Sarai, District-Buxar. 10. Shri Vijai Singh Son of Shri Baijnath Singh, resident of village and post office Koran Sarai, District-Buxar. ---------------------------------- 2. 04.11.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned counsel appearing for respondent no. 3 as well as learned counsel appearing for the State. The writ petition has been filed for quashing of the order dated 7.5.2005 by which a new committee has been constituted for the Ram Janki Mandir. Learned counsel for the respondent Bihar State Religious Trust Board submits that the writ petition has become 2 infructuous since the said committee is no more in existence. He further submits that the order impugned itself stated that the said committee was being constituted for three years and thus in view of efflux of time nothing remains to be adjudicated in the matter. Learned counsel for the petitioner rebuts the contention and submits that since the order was illegal, this Court may give the finding as to the legality of such order under challenge. Considering the rival contentions, this Court feels that since due to efflux of time the order impugned itself no more remains, no order need be passed in the writ petition. This Court would not like to go into the merits and give its findings on an issue which is no more in existence and has been dead since long. It is a well settled and sound principle of law that the Court ought not to go into the academic merits unless there is a lis which is alive and the order passed may be of some help to either of the parties. In view of the same the writ petition having become infructuous stands disposed off. Anand Kr. (Ahsanuddin Amanullah, J.)