IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE NO.9107 OF 2006 BALRAM YADAV, SON OF LATE KAMLESHWAR PD. YADAV, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SHAHKUND, POLICE STATION SHAHKUND, DISTRICT BHAGALPUR VERSUS 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE MINES COMMISSIONER, BIHAR, PATNA 3. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE –CUM- COLLECTOR, BHAGALPUR 4. THE ASSISTANT MINING OFFICER, BHAGALPUR ************* 3 25/11/2011 The petitioner, in this writ application, seeks to challenge the advertisement issued in the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, Bhagalpur Edition dated 26.06.2006 by which the respondents purports to settle the Jhagaria Hills for the purpose of mining. Earlier, the petitioner was settled the hills for a period of ten years in the year 1995. After about two and a half years, the petitioner was stopped from carrying out any further mining operations on the ground that the petitioner had not deposited the dues. Since, this writ application has been filed in the year 2006 and there is no stay order by this Court, the mines in question would have been settled by now, and as such, this writ application virtually becomes infructuous. This writ application is dismissed as infructuous. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)