IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14416 of 2006 BHUTKUN MAHTO Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 5 31.7.2008 Petitioner has laid claim under Shopkeeper Insurance Policy with the Oriental Insurance Company Limited as a result of alleged lost of stocks in flood. He claims that the Bank and the Deputy Development Commissioner recommended his claim to the Insurance Company, which is sitting tight over the matter. Bank has filed a counter affidavit categorically stating that it did not examine the case of the matter nor it forwarded the claim of the petitioner to the Insurance Company. It forwarded the name of 67 other loanees but not that of the petitioner. Petitioner claims that Deputy Development Commissioner recommended his claim ,in support thereof Annexure 3 has been annexed. A reference to Annexure 3 is not a finding of the Deputy Development Commissioner but merely forwarding the claim to the Insurance Company. In that view of the matter, the claim of the petitioner being in serious dispute , this Court is not in a position to decide the matter in the Writ jurisdiction. The petitioner would be well advised to seek his remedy either before the Consumer Forum or the Insurance Regulatory Authority or such body as may be available to him, who would consider condoning the delay because of pendency of this writ petition before this Court. This writ petition stands disposed of. singh ( Navaniti Prasad Singh )