IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.18206 of 2010 SRI SHYAMA KANT SAHAY s/o Late Raj Kishore Narayan Lal, resident of village/ Mohalla Aghoria Barar, behind Girdhari Cold Storage, P.O. Ramna, P.S. Kazimohammadpur, District Muzaffarpur. Versus 1. THE UNION OF INDIA through the Secretary of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi. 2. The Central Board of Direct Taxes, New Delhi. 3. The Joint Director, (Administration) Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue, North Block N.D. 110001. 4. The Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Patna. ----------- 2 18.11.2010 The present writ application has been filed for quashing the order dated 12.8.2010 passed in O.A. No.0454 of 2010, whereby prayer of the petitioner to issue a direction to the respondents to dispose of three appeals pending since 1973 has been rejected. It has been contended by the learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner had filed three appeals, namely, Appeal No. 1980-P- T (5)/78 dated 30.6.78, Appeal No.1952 (1)/ 83 dated 16.4.83 and Appeal No.286- PT/ (2) 85 dated 18.1.1985 before the Central Board of Direct Taxes which are still pending since more than 26 years and therefore the petitioner, who is an old man of 86 years, suffers from irreparable loss due to non disposal of the appeals. Having heard counsel for the parties, this Court is of the opinion that it would suffice if a direction is given to the respondents to dispose of the appeals mentioned above. Accordingly, the order dated 12.8.2010 passed in O.A. No.0454 of 2010 is quashed and the respondents are directed to 2 disposed of the aforementioned appeals within a period of three months from the date of receipt of this order. With the above observation this application is disposed of. (T. Meena Kumari, J.) (Kishore K. Mandal, J.) Abhay Kumar