IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.13751 of 2000 DULA TUDDU Versus THE UNION OF INDIA For the petitioner: None For Union of India: Shri Binay Kumar Pandey,CGC ----------- 5. 2.7.2010 None appears. I have heard Shri Binay Kumar Pandey, learned counsel for the Union of India. The allegation is that the statutory half yearly return was required to be filed under the relevant Rules, i.e., Contract Labour( Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and the Central Rules under that Act of the year 1971 and that having not been filed by the accused, the accused had committed the offence under Section 82 of the said Act and the Rules framed thereunder. Prosecution was properly sanctioned by the authority appointed in that behalf. The ground which has been taken in the present petition is that the complaint petition is frivolous. It is too early to say without anything being available to the court that the prosecution could be frivolous as the authority who filed the complaint, appears a responsible person and he had simply wanted compliance of the statutory provision of filing the half yearly return and has, accordingly, filed the complaint petition on its non-compliance. The petition appears of no merit and the same is dismissed. The stay granted earlier is vacated. Kanth ( Dharnidhar Jha, J.)