IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2608 of 2006 RAJ KUMARI DEVI Versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS ----------- 4. 5.1.2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to add the State of Bihar as opposite party No.5 to the contempt application in the course of the day. The direction of this Court in the order dated 9.2.2005 under contempt to the Board of Officers constituted by the Army Headquarters was to expedite the consideration of the application of the petitioner on merit in accordance with law and to reach a final conclusion in relation thereto at an early date preferably within a period of 12 weeks. In the show cause filed on behalf of the opposite parties it is stated that the case of the petitioner was duly considered in terms of the prevailing rules applicable to compassionate appointment in the Army and the same was finally disposed of and the petitioner’s application could not find the place in merit, which decision has also been communicated to the petitioner by Bihar Regiment letter dated 15.7.2006. After a further consideration by a Review Committee, the - 2 - petitioner’s application was finally rejected and the same was communicated by letter dated 27.2.2007 and the consequential Bihar Regiment letter dated 31.3.2007. In the above circumstances, no case under contempt jurisdiction of this Court is made out. The contempt application is, accordingly, dismissed. The petitioner, if aggrieved by the action of the opposite parties, may take recourse to appropriate proceedings. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )