IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1236 of 2005 M/S Ratna Offsets Ltd., V-2/42A, Kamachha, Varanasi (U.P) through its Managing Director, Vipul Shankar @ Vipul Shankar Pandey. ……. Petitioner. Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. Research Institute for Prakrit, Jainalogy and Ahinsa, at Basokund, Vaishali through its Director. 3. Director, Research Institute for Prakrit, Jainalogy and Ahinsa, at Basokund, Vaishali. ……. Respondents. For the petitioner : Mr. Y.V.Giri, Sr. Advocate. Mr. Raju Giri, Advocate. For the State : Mr.Apurva Kumar, A.C. to SC-V. ----------- 3. 17.01.2011 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State of Bihar and its authorities. 2. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner for a direction to the Director, Research Institute for Prakrit, Jainalogy and Ahinsa at Basokund, Vaishali (Respondent no. 3) to immediately make payment of printing cost of Rs. 5, 12,896.00 with reasonable interest to the petitioner for printing manuscript and treatrise in pursuance of printing order dated 09.03.2002 given by the said respondent vide Letter No. 169 and for other ancillary reliefs. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has stated that the respondent authorities are not taking any step in that regard, although he had filed several representations before Respondent no. 3 and Respondent no. 1 i.e. application dated 18.02.2003 (Annexure-6), application dated 27.05.2003 (Annexure-7), application dated 31.05.2003 (Annexuire-8) & application dated - 2 - 24.07.2003 (Annexure-9). 4. Although, learned counsel for the respondents vehemently opposes the contention of learned counsel for the petitioner, but after considering the facts and circumstances of the case as well as materials on record, this writ petition is disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to approach the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of Bihar, Patna (Respondent no. 1) along with a copy of this order and a detail application raising his claim. If such an application is filed within 15 days, the said authority shall decide the same by a speaking order in accordance with law expeditiously preferably within a period of two months from the date of the said application. If the petitioner is aggrieved by the said order of the authority concerned, he may approach the appropriate Forum for redressal of his grievance. Sujit (S.N.Hussain,J.)