IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2337 of 2005 ………. Nawal Kishore UJpadhyay, son of Sidhnath Upadhyay, resident of Thana Road, Ward No.6 Gopalganj, P.S. Gopalganj Town, District Gopalganj, at present working as Contractor having Registration no. Class one 267/2000 R.E.O. … Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. The Collector, Gopalganj, P.S. Gopalganj Town, Districxt Gopalganj. 3. The Commissioner, Saran Division Chapra, P.S. and District Chapra 4. The Vigilance Commissioner, Patna, P.S. Sachivalay Thana, District Patna 5. Chief Engineer, Gramin Vikas Abhikaran, Bihar, P.S. Sachiwalay Thana District Patna 6. Superintending Engineer, Chapra (Saran) Anchal P.S. Chapra Town, District Saran, Gramin Abhikaran Sangathan, Gopalganj 7. The Executive Engineer, Gramin Abhikaran Sangathan, Gopalganj P.S. and District Gopalganj. 8. 8. Accountant, Office of the Executive Engineer, Gopalganj P.S. and District Gopalganj. ……. Respondents ………. For the Petitioner : Mr. H. P. Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Manoj Kumar Jha, A.C. to G.A. I --------- 04/ 14.02.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents. 2. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner for directing respondent-authorities not to allot the contracts in arbitrary manner to the persons of their choice and to advertise all the tenders publicly either through daily newspaper or on notice board in their office with detail informations with respect to the matter of contracts and to follow the rules and regulations meant for allotting the contracts. 3. It is quite apparent that in every step while 2 making advertisements and tenders with respect to the contracts, the rules and regulations have to be followed and no arbitrary act is permissible. Hence, the rules with respect thereto being already in existence, there is no requirement of any direction to the authorities in that regard. However, the writ petition being filed as far back as on 16.02.2005 and no interim order having been passed therein, it is quite apparent that much water has flown during these six years rendering this writ petition infructuous. 4. Accordingly, this writ petition is dismissed. MPS/ ( S. N. Hussain, J. )