IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.917 of 2005 SURESH PRASAD Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS With CWJC No.10313 of 2000 SATYA NARAYAN YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS With CWJC No.6832 of 2005 SATYA NARAYAN YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 7. 4.8.2009 On 7.7.2009 it was informed by Mr. Anil Kumar, Learned counsel for the petitioner in both the writ petitions and also by Mr. Harshwardhan Sahay, learned counsel for the petitioner in the contempt application that Satya Narayan Yadav, the petitioner of the two writ petitions and the alleged contemnor in the contempt petition has died. On his prayer learned counsel for the petitioner had been granted adjournment by this Court to enable him to seek instruction from the heirs and legal representatives of the deceased in the matter. Today, however, no one appears on behalf of the petitioner. In the above circumstances, both the writ petitions cannot be pursued in absence of the sole petitioner who has died. Similarly no contempt proceeding can be continued against a dead person. Accordingly, both the writ petitions and the - 2 - contempt application are dismissed. Needless to say the interim orders passed in the writ petitions do not survive. P. Kumar (Ramesh Kumar Datta, J.)