IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13548 of 2009 SANJIT PASWAN Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 02. 14.10.2009 Against the order of the Licensing Authority dated 30.1.2009 cancelling the PDS licence of the petitioner an appeal has been filed on 10.2.2009 before the Collector, Supaul. Counsel for the petitioner informs the Court that till date the appeal has not even been registered, leave alone hearing and deciding the same. This Court had occasion to watch many a cases where appeals have been pending for years together for final decision. Based on the displeasure expressed by this Court, vide Memo No. 3825 dated 7.9.2009 issued by the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, a direction has been issued to all the District Magistrates to dispose of the appeal in terms of section 15(i) within sixty days of the institution. This Court has no mechanism to know as to how far the direction of the Chief Secretary has been taken seriously by the District Magistrates but then hoping that the said communication of the Chief Secretary has been taken note of by all the District Magistrates, the present writ application is disposed of with a direction upon the District Magistrate, Supaul to hear the appeal of the petitioner and decide the same within the time frame indicated in the said circular. The writ application is disposed of with the above direction. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)