IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No. 527 of 2001 1. CHAIRMAN-CUM-MANAGING DIRECTOR, CENTRAL COALFIELDS LIMITED, DARBHANGA HOUSE, RANCHI. 2. THE GENERAL MANAGER (SALES), CENTRAL COALFIELDS LIMITED, DARBHANGA HOUSE, RANCHI …….. Appellants Versus 1. M/S HINDUSTAN INDUSTRIES A PROPRIETORSHIP FIRM HAVING ITS UNIT AT MOHANIA ROAD, BHARASORA, P.O.- JAGDISHPUR, DISTRICT- BHOJPUR, THROUGH ITS PROPRIETOR ANIL KUMAR KEJRIWAL. 2. THE STATE OF BIHAR 3. DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIES, PATNA 4. THE CHAIRMAN-CUM-MANAGING DIRECTOR, CENTRAL MINES PLANNING & DESIGN INSTITUTE, GONDWANA PALACE, KANKE ROAD, DISTRICT- RANCHI. 5. THE CENTRAL MANAGER, (COAL TECHNOLOGY), CENTRAL MINES PLANNING & DESIGN INSTITUTE, GONDWANA PALACE, KANKE ROAD, DISTRICT- RANCHI. 6. M/S JYOTI VIKAS INDUSTRIES, THROUGH ITS PROPRIETOR,ADITYA DHANIKA, MOHANIA ROAD BHARASORE, JAGDISHPUR, BHOJPUR …….. Respondents ----------- 15 21.12.2009 Heard Mr. Vishwa Mohan Kumar Sinha for the appellant, and Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha for the respondent. This appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent of the High Court of Judicature at Patna has been preferred with respect to the order dated 03.05.2001, passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court in C.W.J.C. No. 4339 of 2001 (Hindustan Industries and Ors versus The State of Bihar & Ors). 2. Learned counsel for the parties bring to our notice the Pendente Lite developments in the matter. They submit in one voice that supply of coal by the appellant company to respondent nos. 1 and 6 herein, is now governed by the agreement inter-parties concluded on 30.4.2008, which renders 2 the appeal infructuous. 3. In that view of the matter, learned counsel for the appellant seeks permission to withdraw this appeal. Learned counsel for the respondents has no objection to the same. The order of the learned Single Judge is substituted by the agreement inter-parties. It goes without saying that the parties are now bound by the terms of the agreement. 4. The appeal is accordingly disposed of. pkj (S.K. Katriar, J.) ( Kishore K. Mandal, J. )