IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.3640 of 2008 Ran Bijay Bahadur Singh @ Ran Vijoy Bahadur Singh son of Late Ram Pravesh Singh, resident of village Bisuni Tola Jagdishpur, P.O. and P.S. Jagdishpur, District Bhojpur at Arrah. ……Petitioner-Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Mrs. A.N. Safina The District Magistrate, Bhojpur at Arrah 3. Sri Prabhat Kumar The Settlement Officer, Bhojpur at Arrah 4. Sri Ram Chandra Roy The Assistant Settlement Officer, Bhojpur at Arrah 5. Sri Dharamdeo Prasad Singh The In-charge Officer Settlement Officer, Bhojpur at Arrah 6. Sri Daya Shankar Pandey Director Land Records and Measurement Bihar, Patna. 7. Sri Sugriw Mahto The Treasury Officer, Bhojpur at Arrah 8. Mr. I.S. Dhariwal The Accountant General (A and E)-II, Bihar Patna, Birchand Patel Path, Patna. ……..Respondents-Opposite parties. For the petitioner : Mr. Ramadhar Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Binod Kumar, AC to SC V. ----------- 06/ 06.01.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This petition has been filed for initiating a proceeding of contempt and punishing opposite party no.6 for willful disobedience of order of this court dated 11.07.2008 by which C.W.J.C.No.2338 of 2003 was disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to file an application before the Director, Land Records and Measurement, Bihar (respondent no.6) within four weeks from that date along with earlier petition as well as a copy of that order and relevant materials, raising all his grievances which he had raised earlier and if such an application was filed within the 2 aforesaid time, the said respondent no.6 was directed to dispose of the same in accordance with law by a speaking order within four weeks thereafter. It is not in dispute that the said order was passed on 11.07.2008 (Annexure-1) and within four weeks thereafter the petitioner filed his detailed application before respondent no.6 on 05.08.2008 (Annexure-2) and the said application was rejected by respondent no.6 by a speaking order on 21.05.2009 (Annexure-D to the show-cause filed by respondent-opposite party no.6) after the instant M.J.C. case was filed on 22.12.2008. Although learned counsel for the petitioner vehemently argues that the said order dated 21.05.2009 passed by respondent no.6 is merely an eye wash and is discriminatory, as several similarly situated persons have been granted relief as prayed for and the said order is also against the circular of the Government itself and by the said order respondent no.6 has ignored many points and items raised by the petitioner, but it is quite apparent that order dated 11.07.2008 passed by this court had only directed respondent no.6 to dispose of the said application by a speaking order within four weeks. However for the delay caused by respondent no.6 he has tendered his unqualified apologies. In the said circumstances this court does not find the arguments raised by the petitioner in the instant contempt matter, as valid and proper and the matter is dropped. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to challenge 3 the said order of respondent-opposite party no.6 dated 21.05.2009 before an appropriate forum raising all the points available to him which will be considered and decided in accordance with law without being influenced by this order. harish/ ( S. N. Hussain, J. )