IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.254 of 2008 RAGHVENDRA NATH CHATURVEDI . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 4 8.3.2010 KHAN The petitioner has filed the instant contempt application for willful disobedience of the order dated 2.3.1998 passed in C.W.J.C.No.1596 of 1996. This court while admitting the writ petition observed that pending hearing of this application the petitioner shall not be dispossessed from the land which has been declared surplus. Counsel for the petitioner submits that during the pendency of investigation a fresh gazette notification under section 15 of the Land Ceiling Act,1961 was issued which threatened dispossession. The Collector, Araria is present in person in court. Both the learned State counsel as well as the Collector, Araria state that the aforesaid gazette notification has been stayed and no effect will be given to it till the final outcome of C.W.J.C.No.1596 of 1996. In view of the submissions made by the State counsel as well as the Collector, Araria, no useful purpose would be served by keeping the instant contempt application pending any longer and as such the same stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms. (S.P.Singh,J)