IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.18197 of 2008 MAHESH CHANDRA DAS, son of late Ram Pada Das, resident of mohalla-Babugram, P.O. Babugram, Police Station Raghunathpur, District-Purulia (W.B). Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Chief Secretary, Bihar Patna. 2.Secretary-cum-Commissioner, Public Health Engineering Department, Punaichak, patna. 3.Engineer-in-Chief Cum Special Secretary, Public Health Engineering Department, Punaichak, Patna. 4.Joint Secretary, Public Health Engineering Department, Government of Bihar, Punaichak, Patna. 5.Executive Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department (Mechanical Division), Purnea Court, Purnea. ----------- 2 4/5/2010 Heard Mr. Ajoy Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner assails in this writ application the order dated 25.2.2008 passed by the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Health Engineering Department, whereby and whereunder, the amount of electricity consumed in the quarter allotted to the petitioner has been sought to be recovered. The authority after giving an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner has passed such order and thus there would be hardly any scope for judicial review of such order. A Government servant who is allotted a Government quarter is fully liable to pay the electricity charges for the consumption of electricity in his quarter. Admittedly, the petitioner had occupied a government quarter and therefore electricity charge for the period he had occupied the quarter was recoverable from him. Reliance placed by the petitioner on Rule 43 B of 2 Bihar Pension Rules is wholly misplaced. Rule 43B does not envisage that the person who had occupied a government quarter would not be liable to pay electricity charges. That being so, this application is wholly misconceived and is, accordingly, dismissed. Abhay Kumar ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)