IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9034 of 2007 KIRAN SINHA, wife of late Ashok Kumar Sinha, aged about 31 years, resident of Kiran Bhawan Road, P.S. Madhubani, District Madhubani … Petitioner Versus 1. L.N.MITHILA UNIVERSITY through its Vice Chancellor, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga 2. The Vice Chancellor, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga 3. The Registrar, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga 4. The Finance Officer, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga 5. Principal, J.M.D.P.L. Mahila College, Madhubani … Respondents ----------- 3. 27.4.2011 Heard Mr. Ambar Nath Banerjee, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Pushkar Narain Sahi, learned counsel appearing for L.N.Mithila University. Pursuant to the order of this Court dated 6.4.2011 a show cause has been filed on behalf of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar of the University stating therein that the petitioner has been appointed on compassionate ground by a notification contained in Memo No. VCR-318-30/11 dated 25.4.2011. Since only relief sought in this writ application was for appointment of the petitioner on compassionate ground and that has already been allowed, no useful purpose 2 would be served in now directing the Vice Chancellor of the University to appear in person specially when he has also filed an application for personal exemption on the ground of his illness. The Registrar of the University as directed by this Court of course is present while the order is being dictated in Court. It is really unfortunate to note that when the Registrar was asked as with regard to the number of pending cases in this Court and the position of filing of counter affidavit/ show cause, he has feigned ignorance about them saying that he has not reviewed the whole matter. One fails to understand as to what logic the University has in retaining a Registrar who does not even know his basic job of attending to the ongoing litigations in the Court of law. The Registrar being the Chief Executive Officer of the University was supposed to keep the complete tap on the ongoing litigations in different courts. The Vice Chancellor being virtually an academician is to be given full assistance by the Registrar in running the 3 administration of the University but if there be a Registrar of the present kind who is present before the Court today, the functioning of the University can never improve. Be that as it may, when the Registrar on being informed by his Law Officer, who is present in Court today, that there are 1170 writ applications and 171 contempt applications pending before this Court, would undertake that the counter affidavit/ show cause in each of them would be filed within a period of three months from today, this Court for the time being would exempt personal appearance of the Registrar of the University. If it is, however, subsequently found in any other case by this Court that such a counter affidavit/ show cause has not been filed in the cases which are pending as on date today, it is the Registrar and the Law Officer present in Court who shall be held personally liable for breach of their undertaking and thus punishable under the provisions of Contempt of Court Act. 4 With the aforementioned observation and direction, this application is disposed of. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/