IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No 15081 of 2005 Subodh Choubey, son of late Jagdish Choubey, resident of village - Bairiya, P S - Ahiyapur, Dist - Muzaffarpur - Petitioner Versus 1 The State of Bihar 2 The Secretary, Public Works Department, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna 3 The Chief Engineer, Rural Engineering Organisation, Bihar, Patna 4 The Superintending Engineer, Rural Engineering Organization, Muzaffarpur 5 The Executive Engineer, Rural Engineering Organization, Works Division, Muzaffarpur - Respondents ----------- 3 19.12.2008 The petitioner had filed this writ petition praying for a direction to the respondents to allocate funds for payment of his pending bills in respect of bricks supplied for repair of roads. It was stated that during pendency of the writ petition, the authorities referred the matter to Liability’s Committee to examine and make recommendations for payment. The Committee was constituted by the Superintending Engineer, REO, Works Division, Muzaffarpur, Executive Engineer, REO, Works Division, Muzaffarpur and Executive Engineer, NREP, Muzaffarpur. The Committee examined the matter and determined the liability of the State to the extent of Rs 3,60,761/- only. The report has been annexed by supplementary affidavit by the petitioner and is dated 31.08.2007. Petitioner states that out of said recommendation, he has recently been favoured with payment of about Rs 2,93,000/-. Thus, about Rs 67,000/- remains to be paid to the petitioner out of the admitted liability. In my view, no useful purpose would be served by keeping this writ petition pending in view of the facts as noted above. I, therefore, dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the 2 Superintending Engineer, REO, Works Division, Muzaffarpur to ensure that the balance payment be made to the petitioner in accordance with law within a period of one month from the day of production of a copy of this order of this Court before him. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh)