IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.965 of 2007 DINESH RAI & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 6 27.08.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for Commissioner- cum-Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation. This petition has been filed for initiating a proceeding of contempt against opposite party no. 3 Commissioner-cum- Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation for non- compliance of direction of this Court vide order dated 22.01.2007 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 12935 of 2006 by which Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation was directed to decide the matter pending before him in accordance with law by speaking order within six weeks from today. A supplementary show case has been filed on behalf of the Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation stating that a speaking order has been passed by opposite party no. 3 vide memo no. 105/legal dated 21.8.2008 (Annexure-A) and hence he had decided the matter in compliance of the order of this Court and for the delay in compliance of the said order, he has sought apologies. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, the order of this Court has already been complied with. This petition is thus disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to - 2 - challenge the said order of Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation dated 21.8.2008, if he so likes, before an appropriate forum. pkj (S.N.Hussain,J)