IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2815 of 2006 RAMJEE SINGH & ORS Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. with MJC No.2816 of 2006 MANOJ KUMAR SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. with MJC No.2817 of 2006 UMESH KUMAR SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. with MJC No.2818 of 2006 RAM NARAYAN SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 08/ 18.8.2008 In compliance of my orders dated 12.8.2008 as also earlier orders dated 22.7.2008, Circle Officer, Sultanganj is present and has filed supplementary show cause annexing the report of the District Magistrate, Bhagalpur dated 9.8.2008, Annexure-F as also copy of the order of the Collector dated 1.8.2008, whereunder instructions have been issued to the Circle Officer and the local administration to provide police protection to the land-holders for cultivating the lands, which were the subject matter of CWJC No. 15970 of 2005 and other analogous matters of the year 2005. In the show cause further notice issued to the land-holders, bearing Memo. No. 102 dated 19.1.2007 has also been annexed directing the land-holders to approach the 2 local administration for appropriate protection in the event of trouble being created by the erstwhile parcha holders. 2. From perusal of the report of the District Magistrate dated 9.8.2008, it appears that the lands in question were found to be cultivated by one Fulo Singh, son of Sikandar Singh and his labourers as they were found by the District Magistrate on 9.8.2008 uprooting the paddy seedlings from plot no. 627 of village Asthandeeh. From the report, it further appears that the Circle Officer was directed under orders dated 1.8.2008 to provide police protection to the petitioners, but the same could not be provided as presently the land is inundated and is likely to be free from water only in October-November, as such, this Court directs the District Magistrate, Bhagalpur and the Circle Officer, Sultanganj, who is present in the Court to ensure that in the coming Rabi sowing season lands are cultivated by the petitioners and if necessary, police protection be allowed to them as and when they require such protection for smooth cultivation of the lands in question. 3. With the aforesaid observations and directions, these contempt applications are disposed of. Arjun/ (V.N. Sinha, J.)