IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.15809 of 2011 Bhagwan Lal Sharma S/O Late Jadunandan Sharma R/O Village - Parswana, P.S. Parsa, District – Saran------------------- --------------------------------------Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar Through The Commissioner - Cum - Secretary, Water Resources Department, Sinchai Bhawan, Patna 2. The Chief Engineer, Mechanical, Water Resources Department, Old Secretariat Barrack, Patna 3. The Superintending Engineer, Mechanical Circle, Birpur, District, Supaul 4. The Executive Engineer, Irrigation Mechanical Division, Birpur, District, Supaul 5. The Accountant General, Bihar, Birchand Patel Path, Patna--- --------------------------------------------------Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 9.11.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the Accountant General, Bihar Claim of the petitioner for grant of benefit of first and second ACP seems to be under consideration before the respondent. However, the Chief Engineer, Mechanical has already written to the concerned authority for seeking certain clarification emerging from the service book of the petitioner based on his initial engagement i.e. evident from annexure-9 which is letter no. 2264 dated 19.6.2010. More than a year has gone past and since nothing came out of the same the petitioner has approached this Court by way of the present writ petition. Since it is a case of delay in decision making process by the respondent and does not require any declaration or interpretation of law at this stage, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction upon the Chief Engineer, Mechanical, Water Resources Department i.e. respondent no.2 to expedite the matter and take a final decision and communicate the outcome thereof to the petitioner within a period 2 of three months from the date of production/communication of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that if the benefit accrues to the petitioner the consequential order will also flow. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)