IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9468 of 1998 1. M/s Gautam Bhandar through its proprietor Ajay Kumar. 2. M/s Vivek Stores through its proprietor Gopal Prasad 3. M/s Sindhwahini Traders through its proprietor Santosh Kumar 4. M/s Jain Lakshmi Trading Co. through its proprietor Jai Prakash 5. M/s N.K. Traders through its proprietor Naresh Prasad 6. M/s Pawan Kumar Jain through its proprietor Pawan Kumar Jain. 7. M/s Amar Traders through its proprietor Amar Nath Prasad. 8. M/s Dhundi Raj Traders through its proprietor Alok Kumar 9. M/s K.K. Traders through its proprietor Ajit Kumar 10. M/s Jai Shankar Traders through its proprietor Jairanarain Prasad All having its business place at Purani Godam, Gaya and residents of P.S. Kotwali Gaya, Distt. – Gaya. ------------- Petitioners. Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, through the Secretary, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. 3. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee, Gaya through the Secretary, Chandauti Market Yard, Chandauti, Gaya. 4. The Secretary, Agriculture Produce Market Committee, Chandauti Market Yard, Chandauti, Gaya. 5. Managing Director, Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. 6. Joint Secretary, Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. WITH CWJC No. 7571 of 1998 1. Bandana Stores through Sheo Prasad, son of late Madhushudan Prasad, resident of Mohalla – Mirshafayat Road, Gaya, P.S. Kotwali, District – Gaya. 2. Nath Traders through Keso Prasad, son of late Sitaram Sah, resident of Purani Godam, Gaya, P.S. Kotwali, District – Gaya. 3. Tirupati Traders through Pramod Kumar, son of Bashista Kesari, resident of Purani Godam, P.S. Kotwali, District – Gaya. 4. Sunil Kumar & Company, through Sunil Kumar, son of late Sadanand Ram, resident of Purani Godam, P.S. Kotwali, District – Gaya. 5. Ganga Stores through Raj Kumar Prasad, resident of Purani Godam, P.S. Kotwali, District – Gaya. -------- Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Bihar, through the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, through the Secretary, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. 3. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee, Gaya through the Secretary, Chandauti Market Yard, Chandauti, Gaya. 4. The Secretary, Agriculture Produce Market Committee, Chandauti Market Yard, Chandauti, Gaya. 5. Managing Director, Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. 6. Joint Secretary, Agricultural Produce Marketing Board, Pant Bhawan, Beli Road, Patna. ---------- Respondents. ---------------------- For the Petitioners : Mr. Arun Kumar No.2 Advocate. For the State : Mr. Dilip Kumar J.C. to G.P.1 ----------------------- - 2 - 11 11.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Both the writ applications were filed challenging the direction of the then Marketing Board to shift the business activity of sugar and other food grain items within the premises of the principal market yard located at Chandauti at Gaya. When the matter was taken up at the time of admission the kind of interim protection was granted to the petitioners with a direction upon the respondent not to compel them to shift their business during the pendency of the writ application. By a legislation in the year 2006, the Bihar State Agricultural Marketing Board stands dissolved and the Act in question repealed in that view of the matter, the writ applications have lost their meaning and have been rendered infructuous, they are dismissed accordingly. Rajeev/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)