IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1685 of 2010 1. NAGENDRA PRASAD SINGH S/O LATE DEO LAGAN SINGH R/O VILL.- BIHARI BIGHA, P.S. PANDARAK, DISTT.- PATNA, AT PRESENT POSTED AS SALESMAN, BIHAR STATE FOOD CORPORATION LIMITED, BIHARSHARIF, NALANDA Versus 1. BIHAR STATE FOOD & CIVIL SUPPLY CORPORATION LIMITED, PATNA THROUGH ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR 2. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, BIHAR STATE FOOD & CIVIL SUPPLY CORPORATION LIMITED, PATNA 3. CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATION, BIHAR STATE FOOD & CIVIL SUPPLY CORPORATION LIMITED, PATNA 4. DISTRICT MANAGER, BIHAR STATE FOOD CORPORATION, NALANDA For the Petitioner :M/s A.K. Thakur & Imteyaz Ahmad, Advocates For the Respondent- Corporation :M/s R.S. Pradhan, Sr. Advocate & A. N. Rai, Advocate 03/ 18.02.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the Bihar State Food & Civil Supply Corporation Ltd., Patna (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). Petitioner is subjected to a department proceeding. He has been served with second show cause notice in compliance of the orders of the Managing Director of the Corporation dated 11.4.2009, whereunder four punishments have been proposed. He is apprehending that in the light of the observations of the Managing Director of the Corporation contained in his note dated 11.4.2009, his fate is already sealed and punishments enumerated in the notes are surely to follow. During the hearing of the writ application, it transpired that the Managing Director of the Corporation has since changed and the successor Managing Director shall consider the second show cause reply filed by the petitioner with an open mind and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law without being obsessed with the observations 2 contained in the notes of the earlier Managing Director dated 11.4.2009. With this observation, the writ application is disposed of. Arjun/ (V.N. Sinha, J.)