IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13817 of 2005 VIDYAPATI THAKUR, Son of late Mahadeo Thakur resident of Village- Bishwapuraiya, P.S. Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR, through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Mines and Geology, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 3. Additional Secretary, Department of Mines and Geology, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 4. Joint Secretary, Department of Mines and Geology, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 5. Deputy Secretary/Director Mines, Department of mines and Geology, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 6. Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 7. Shambhu Prasad Sahu S/O Sri Ram Lakhan Sahu, Presently, posted as Mines Inspector, District Mines Office, Nalanda at Biharsharif. 8. Sanjeev Kumar Mandal, S/O Sripati Mandal, presently, posted as Mines Inspector, District Mines Office, Chaibasa, Jharkhand. ----------- 2. 13.09.2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner informs the Court that the petitioner is dead. He also submits that this information was given by the legal heirs well in advance, yet no action has been taken for filing the substitution petition even though the cause of action still subsists. Be that as it may, the fact that the petitioner is dead the writ application cannot survive in the present form. This writ application is dismissed. Anand Kr. ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)