IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2962 of 2010 DR. PARASHURAM SINGH s/o Late Krishna Singh, a retired University Professor in the post graduate department of Hindi in Maharaja College, Ara. Presently resident of Chogain Bhawan, Tilak Nagar, Katira, Ara-802301 District- Bhojpur. ...Petitioner. Versus 1. STATE OF BIHAR through Sri Anjani Kumar singh, Principal Secretary, department of H.R.D., Govt. of Bihar. 2. Veer Kuer Singh University through its Registrar, Dr. Brajesh Kumar. 3. Dr. Brajesh Kumar s/o Name not known to the petitioner. Registrar, Veer Kuer Singh University, Both having office at Ara, P. S.- Nawada, District- Bhojpur. ... Respondents. ----------- 3. 25.08.2010 Having heard counsel for the parties as also in the light of the stand taken by the counsel for the University, this Court would drop the contempt proceeding in view of the fact that payment as directed by this Court in the order dated 28.6.2010 has been ultimately made to the petitioner though not within time frame as indicated in the order of this Court dated 28.6.2010 in CWJC No. 8373 of 2002. The possible oral explanation of Mr. Vinay Kirti Singh, learned counsel for the University that there was strike in the University which prevented the Registrar from making payment or the Registrar had no control over the auditors of the State Government who had raised objections on the claim of the petitioner is of no avail 2 inasmuch as the Registrar of the University with his eyes open had given an undertaking as was recorded in the order of this Court dated 28.6.2010 and thereafter he had no business to take any defence except by either filing application before this Court for extension of time or complying the order. Having not done either, the Registrar must be held to have flouted the order of this Court dated 28.6.2010 in CWJC No. 8373 of 2002 but then as the order now has been complied as is accepted and admitted by Mr. A. B. Ojha, learned counsel for the petitioner, this court would not like to say anything further save and except to remind the Registrar that he having given his personal undertaking was bound to carry out the same within the fixed time frame. With the aforementioned observation, this contempt application is disposed of. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)