IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14921 of 2008 AFSAR IMAM, S/O LATE ABDUL SALAM KHAN, R/O MOHALLA- BANSWARIA, P.S. BETIA TOWN, DISTRICT- WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. …………………PETITIONER. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. THE FOREST CONSERVATOR, BIHAR, PATNA. 3. THE DIVISIONAL FOREST CONSERVATOR-CUM-DEPUTY DIRECTOR, TIGER PROJECT, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. 4. THE DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER-CUM-DEPUTY DIRECTOR BALMIKI TIGER PROJECT, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. 5. THE FOREST CONSERVATOR, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. 6. THE CHAIRMAN DISTRICT ANUSARWAN SAMITI, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. 7. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. 8. THE SUB-DIVISIONAL MAGISTRATE, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH. …………….RESPONDENTS. Counsel for the petitioner : Satyawrat Verma Counsel for the State : V. M. K. Sinha (S.C.-3) Pankaj Kumar Sinha (A.C. to S.C.-3) ----------- 3 09-08-2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the State. 2. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner for directing the authority concerned, namely the Divisional Forest Officer-cum-Deputy Director Balmiki Tiger Project, West Champaran, Bettiah (Respondent No. 4) to comply order dated 4-7-2006 passed by District Judge, West Champaran, Bettiah in Misc. Appeal No. 12 of 2004 and analogous cases where 2 by direction was given to the authorities to consider the case of the petitioner afresh as per the recommendations and guidelines provided by the Hon’ble Supreme Court and further to grant renewal to the licence of the petitioner’s firm registered as Md Mansoor Khan Saw Mill bearing license No. 136 of 1986 and also for further direction to the respondents authorities to dispose of the representation of the petitioner by a reasoned and speaking order within a time frame considering the vacancies of the Saw Mills in District of West Champaran by a fresh reasoned and speaking order. 3. Learned counsel for the respondent has filed their counter affidavit inter alia claiming that the petitioner has got alternative remedy before the District Judge but he has not availed the said opportunity. To this claim of the respondents’ counsel the petitioner’s counsel stated that in terms of the orders of the District Judge the matter has to be considered and appropriate order has to be passed by the authorities concerned. 4. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh application before the Divisional Forest Officer-cum-Deputy Director Balmiki Tiger Project, West Champaran, (Respondent No.4) for the reliefs as claimed above and if such an application is filed within 3 one month from today the said authority shall pass appropriate orders in accordance with law within six months, after hearing the parties and keeping in view the claim of the petitioner that the Divisional Forest Officer has himself admitted in his letter that the applications for renewal of license filed by the petitioner in the year 1990 and 1993 were well within time. S.P. (S. N. Hussain, J.)