IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.15666 of 2011 Shri Ram Suphal Pandit, S/O Late Nandipat Pandit, Resident of Village- Ghurghura, P.O. Banarjhula, P.S. Sonbarsa, District- Sitamarhi, at present working as Junior Engineer and posted at Drainage Sub Division at Chhatapur under Drainage Division, Raghopur, District- Supaul. . . . . . Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Principal Secretary, Water Resources Department, Bihar, Patna. 2. The Principal Secretary, Water Resources Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Engineer-In-Chief (North), Water Resources Department, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Birpur, Supaul. 5. The Superintending Engineer, Baraj Circle, Birpur, District- Supaul. 6. The Superintending Engineer, East Koshi Embankment Circle, Saharsa Circle, Saharsa. 7. The Executive Engineer, East Embankment Division, Birpur (Supaul). 8. The Executive Engineer, Head Works Division, Birpur, Supaul. 9. The Executive Engineer, Drainage Division, Raghopur (Supaul). . . . . . Respondents. For the Petitioner : Mr. Harish Kumar, Advocate. For the State : AC to SC 14 ---------------------------------- 2/ 02.12.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is working as Junior Engineer, Drainage Sub-Division, Chhatapur under Drainage Division, Raghopur, District- Supaul. An indifferent approach on the part of some of the officials deputed in East Embankment Division, Birpur (Supaul0 has led to filing of this writ application. Time and again river Koshi has played havoc with the live and property of the respondents living nearby its Embankment. In order to avoid flood, orders of supply of boulders were invited through different contractors. Pursuant to the orders received from the officials, the contractors supplied the boulders. However, the authority found that there are having excess boulders for the time being. 2 The petitioner submits that the Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Birpur vide his letter contained in Memo no.1306 dated 19.04.2010 wrote to Superintending Engineer, Baraj Circle, Birpur that excess of boulders measuring 7062 M3 was lying within the working area of the Executive Engineer, East Embankment Division, Birpur and to keep a watch over the said boulders of the area. The measurement of the boulders were also done and due payment to the suppliers were also made. The Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department directed the Executive Engineer, East Embankment Division, Birpur to accept the boulders and keep it under proper storage. The petitioner submits that the boulders have not as yet been accepted and kept in proper storage. The boulders have been received after paying necessary costs for the same and if the boulders are not taken care of, it would cause heavy loss to State exchequer. In the facts and circumstances of the case and particularly in view of letters of Chief Engineer (Anexure-1 and 11), I direct respondent nos. 5 to 7 to take immediate steps for storage of boulders at the earliest. With the aforesaid direction, this application is disposed of. Uday/ (Samarendra Pratap Singh, J.)