IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16810 of 2009 NIRANJAN KUMAR (aged about 36 years), S/o Satish Chandra Sharma, R/O village – Palaya, PS Makhdumpur, District- Jehanabad -Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The Secretary, Department of Mines and Geology, Government of Bihar, Patna 3. District Magistrate, Jehanabad. 4. The Assistant Mining Officer, Jehanabad 5. The Bihar State Pollution Control Board, through the Secretary Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Beltron Bhawan, Shastri Nagar, Patna-respondents ----------- 2 03-12-2009 Heard the parties. This writ petition has been preferred purportedly in public interest to direct the respondents, particularly, Bihar State Pollution Control Board, respondent no.5 and District Magistrate, Jehanabad, respondent no.3 to check illegal and substandard brick kilns from operating in various villages of Jehanabad district so that public health may not be endangered on account of uncontrolled pollution. Learned counsel for the Bihar State Pollution Control Board has raised a grievance that the petitioner has named only villages (Mauza) where such brick kilns are being operated without naming the owners. The Bihar State Pollution Control Board is a statutory body to check and control the sources causing pollution, particularly, when the sources are industries like brick kilns. Hence, in public interest respondent no.5 is directed to conduct its own survey in the area and ensure that brick kilns operate only as per guidelines of the Bihar State Pollution Control 2 Board and do not endanger public health by violating pollution norms. In the aforesaid task the District Magistrate, Jehanabad shall also give due assistance to the Bihar State Pollution Control Board. It is expected that Bihar State Pollution Control Board shall control such menace by taking effective steps within a period of two months from today. This writ petition is disposed of. Let a copy of this order be given to learned counsel for the Bihar State Pollution Control Board as well as to learned counsel for the State who shall convey it to respondent no.3 for compliance. BKS/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, ACJ.) (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)