IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.17399 of 2008 Bisheshwar Nath Singh, son of Late Shio Balak Singh, resident of Village- Bellipatty, P.S.-Gautam Budh Nagar(Tarwara), District-Siwan. …….Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The District Magistrate, Siwan. 3. The District Certificate Officer, Siwan, District-Siwan 4. The Secretary, Literacy Committee, Siwan, District-Siwan-cum-District Mass Education Officer, Siwan, District-Siwan …….Respondents ----------- 02. 18.03.2009 The petitioner challenges the order passed in miscellaneous Case No. 24 of 2000-2001 by the Certificate Officer, Siwan dated 09.09.2008 by which petitioner’s objection petition has been rejected being beyond time. The certificate proceedings were initiated in the year 2000-01 and earlier also without deciding the objections on merit, warrants were issued against the petitioner which brought the petitioner to this Court. This Court set aside the orders in C.W.J.C. No. 5521 of 2008 and analogues case being C.W. J.C. No. 5232 of 2008 by order dated 23.05.2008. Again taking a hyper technical view that the objection was not filed strictly within thirty days, the same has again been rejected without being decided on merit. Having heard learned counsels for the parties. I set aside the impugned order and direct the Certificate - 2 - Officer to hear and decide the objections on merit on all issues as raised by the petitioner. Petitioner would also be at liberty to raise any other additional issue in its defence which the Certificate Officer would be obliged to consider and decide on merits after hearing the parties. The impugned order thus is set aside. Warrant of arrest, if any, issued is also consequently set aside. With the aforesaid observations and directions, the writ petition is allowed. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.)