IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.110 of 2011 3 13.4.2011 Samant Kumar, son of Sri Chandradeo Prasad Roy, resident of Kadwa Paraspur, P.S. Khainpur, Kadwa, District Bhagalpur …. Appellant/ Petitioner VERSUS 1. The State of Bihar 2. The Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. The Director General of Police, Bihar, Patna 4. The Director, Forensic Science (Police Laboratory) Bihar, Patna 5. The Inspector General (C.I.D.), Bihar, Patna 6. The DIG (CID) Bihar, Patna 7. The SP (CID), Bihar, Patna … Respondents/ Respondents ------- Heard learned counsel for the appellant and perused the order of the Writ Court. The writ petition has been dismissed by the learned single Judge after noticing the relevant Rule 450 of the Police Manual which defines as to who shall be an expert and after noticing that the petitioner had not made the three concerned persons parties whose certificates were challenged by the petitioner. While agreeing with the views of the Writ Court we further find that the petitioner has made guarded statement in paragraph 4 that some matter relating to him has been sent to FSL for Handwriting and on that ground - 2 - alone has preferred the writ petition to challenge letters issued by the competent authorities declaring three employees of the FSL to be experts. The learned Writ Court had noted that the petitioner is a student of Medical College facing a charge of interpolation in the answer sheets as apparent from the report sent by the expert. If the proceeding against the petitioner is continued in accordance with law, he would be entitled to cross-examine the experts, if required, but collaterally only because some report has been submitted in a matter of investigation against the petitioner, it will not be proper to allow him to challenge the competence of the experts when admittedly he is not at all concerned with their appointment or training etc. For all the aforesaid reasons, we are in agreement with the views expressed by the Writ Court that the writ petition deserves to be dismissed. The appeal is accordingly dismissed. sk (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Akhilesh Chandra, J.)