IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.5043 of 2010 4 11.4.2011 Birendra Thakur son of late Bhagwan Thakur, resident of village- Pipara, P.O. & Police Station- Daraunda, District Siwan ….. PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Bihar 2. Shri Ajay Nayak, the Principal Secretary, Water Resources Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. Shri Rameshwar Singh, the Principal Secrtary, Finance Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 4. Shri K.C.Saha, the Development Commissioner, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 5. Shri Ajeet Kumar Samaiyar, the Joint Secretary, Water Resources Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 6. Shri Hari Narayan, the Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Bihar, Patna 7. Shri Ram Pukar Ranjan, the Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Siwan 8. Shri Birendra Kumar Sinha, the Superintending Engineer, Water Resources Department, Planning and Monitoring Anchal-2, Sichai Bhawan, Patna 9. Shri Kumar Jayant Prasad, the Superintending Engineer, Saran Canal Circle, Siwan 10. Shri Sahanwaj Khan, the Executive Engineer, Saran Canal Division, Andar, Siwan 11. Shri Anshuli Arya, the Divisional Commissioner, Saran Division at Chapra 12. Shri Lokesh Kumar Singh, the District Magistrate, Siwan 13. Shri Abrar Ahmad Kanar, the Deputy Development Commissioner, Siwan … Respondents/ Opposite parties ------- For the Petitioner : Mr Umesh Kr. Mishra, Advocate For the State : M/s A.K.Pandey, GA 9 and Rajeev Lochan, AC to GA 9 ------- Heard the parties. By Annexure 1, a Division Bench of this Court - 2 - on 26.11.2008 noticed the relevant scheme known as Bohata Nala Yojana in three Gram Panchayats, namely, Raj Sirsao, Korarikala and Harsar in the district of Siwan and after being satisfied that the authorities have obtained financial sanction and the scheme is under implementation, the writ petition was disposed of with observation that the authorities/ agencies concerned with the implementation of the scheme would take all necessary steps that are required to be taken for its implementation. After one year and ten months this contempt petition was filed by the petitioner alleging that the authorities are not taking necessary steps for implementation of the scheme. The show cause filed on behalf of the Executive Engineer, Drainage Division, Siwan, respondent no.10, discloses that the financial sanction now needs to be revised in view of escalation of costs and that two number of cross drainage structures have already been constructed and the link drain under construction cannot be completed until land acquisition process is completed. - 3 - At the present stage, it would not be proper to hold the respondents guilty of contempt. This application is, therefore, disposed of finally with a direction that all the concerned authorities including those associated with land acquisition scheme for the project shall take required steps with a view to complete the scheme within one year from today. It is expected that there shall not be any occasion to file another contempt application after one year. sk (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Akhilesh Chandra, J.)