IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2873 of 2009 BHAGWAT MANDAL, son of Late Laxman Mandal, resident of village- Nirmali Tola- Bela, Police Station- Pipra, District- Supaul. . . . . . Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Secretary-cum-Commissioner, Department of Home, Bihar, Patna, namely Shri Girish Shankar. 2. The Director General of Police, Bihar, Patna, namely Shri Anand Shankar. 3. The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Koshi Range, Saharsa, namely Shri Sunila Jha. 4. The District Magistrate, Supal, District- Supaul, namely Shri Kumar Ravi. 5. The Superintendent of Police, supaul, District- Supaul, namely Shri Nagendra Prasad Singh. 6. The Superintendent of Police, Railway, Katihar, namely Shri Binod Kumar Chaudhary. 7. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Supaul, namely Shri Shaishav Yadav. 8. The Officer-in-charge of Pipra Police Station, Pipra, District Supaul, namely Shri Biresh Kumar. 9. The Station House Officer of Railway Police Station, Saharsa, namely Shri Krishna Paswan. . . . Contemnors / Opposite Parties. ----------- 2/ 03.02.2010 Heard. The instant contempt application has been filed for violation of order dated 26.02.2009 passed in Cr.W.J.C. No. 1136 of 2007, whereby this Court observed that the D.I.G. Kosi Range, Saharsa would take a decision whether it would be the Rail Police, Saharsa or Pipra Police, who would be the appropriate authority to investigate the case. A show-cause has been filed wherein it has been stated that the D.I.G. Kosi Range has directed the Station House Officer (SHO) of Saharsa (Rail) P.S. to take charge of the investigation of Pipra P.S. case no. 73 of 2007. In this view of the matter, no case of contempt is made out. - 2 - Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that however, the Saharsa (Rail) P.S. has not taken even statement of the material witnesses under Section 161 of Cr.P.C. Now once the case has been directed to be investigated by Station House Officer (SHO) of Saharsa (Rail) P.S. way back in April, 2009, he would conclude the investigation without much delay and would take steps to record the statement of material witnesses. With the aforesaid observation, this contempt application is disposed of. Uday/ (Samarendra Pratap Singh, J.)