IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7525 of 2008 DILIP KUMAR, son of late Kishun Rai, resident of village Dariapur Ushmanpur, P.S. Athmalgola Dist. Patna----------------------petitioner Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, New Secretariat,Patna 2.Pankaj Kumar Rai, son of late Ram Briksha Rai, resident of village Budhra, P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 3.Anil Rai, son of Sri Kusheshwar Rai, resident of village Ushmanpur Ganjpar, P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 4.Arun Kumar Singh, son of Yugeshwar Prasad Singh, resident of village Ushmanpur Babu Chhedi Singh Ka Gola, P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 5.Chandra Deep Rai, son of late Horli Rai, resident of village Ram Nagar Karari Kachhar P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 6.Dropati Devi, wife of Bilash Paswan, resident of village Budhara, P.S. Akthmalgola, Dist. Patna 7.Dhroopnarain Singh, son of late Surendra Singh, resident of village Yamanpur,Ganjpar P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 8.Nagmani Kumar, son of Banwari Rai, resident of village Ushmanpur Budhara, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 9.Parmanand Singh, son of late Janak Singh, resident of village Budhara, P.S. Athmalgola Dist. Patna 10.Punam Devi, wife of Parveen Kumar, resident of village Ushmanpur Gandpar, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 11.Manohar Rai, son of Sri Anandi Rai, resident of village Budhara, P.S.Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 12.Niru Hasan Ahmad, son of Md.Matil Siddiqui, resident of village Ushmanpur Abijan, P.S. Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 13.Md.Hassan, son of Md.Manan Hassan, resident of village Ahijan, P.S.Athmalgola,Dist.Patna 14.Md.Akbar Hasan, son of Abdul Hassan,resident of village Ushmanpur Ahijan, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 15.Ravi Shankar Prasad, son of Alakhdeo Rai, resident of village Budhara, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 2 16.Binod Yadav, son of Saltyanarain Rai, resident of village Budhara, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 17.Bishwanath Rai, son of Parmeshwar Rai, resident of village Ushmanpur Ganjpar, P.S.Athmalgola, Dist. Patna 18.Sarfaraj ahmad, son of Tayab Hassan, resident of village Ushmanpur Ahijan, P.S.Athmalgola Dist. Patna 19.Ujwal Kumar Singh, Block Developkment Officer -cum-Returning Officer, Athmalgola, Dist. Patna-----------------------respondents ------- 2. 4.3.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has not come to this Court seeking any substantive relief in the matter but being the election petitioner only seeks a direction that the Election Case No.3/2006 filed by him, which is pending before the Munsif, Barh, should be disposed of without any delay. The said election case was filed in October, 2006. After the petitioner had examined all his witnesses the examination of the witnesses of the winning candidate was taken up on the basis of list of witnesses submitted by him, out of which eight were examined and the rest were given up. Again on 12.2.2008 a second list of 32 witnesses was presented before the Tribunal and in the course of the last more than a year it is informed by the counsel for the 3 petitioner that only 16 witnesses have been examined. This Court is surprised as to how the Election Tribunal is permitting the election case to be dragged on in this manner at the behest of the winning candidate. The normal time frame for conclusion of election cases is expected to be within six months. Yet in the present matter this Court finds that even after the expiry of nearly one and half years the conclusion of the election case in question is nowhere in sight. The writ application is disposed of with a direction to the Munsif, Barh, to conclude the Election Case No. 3/2006 within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order by hearing the same if necessary on a day-to-day basis and no unnecessary adjournment will be given for production of witnesses if the same are not produced on the date fixed by the court or for any other frivolous reason. (Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.) spal/