IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13854 of 2002 RAMJEE SINGH, s/o late Ram Narayan Singh, resident of village-Panchshil Nagar, P.O.+P.S. Harnaut, District- Nalanda. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR, through the Chief Secretary Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The D.G-Cum-IG of Police, Bihar Patna. 3. The D.I.G of Police, Magadh Range, Gaya. ----------- 3 9/7/2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. Prayer made by the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “That this is an application for issuance of appropriate writ, order, or direction to quash the order of dismissal passed by the D.I.G. (Annexure-4) and to quash the order of D.G. of Police if any adverse to the petitioner and for grant of all consequential benefits.” Counsel for the petitioner, however, before addressing on the aforementioned relief has pointed out that statutory appeal filed by the petitioner against the order of punishment passed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police has still not been disposed of. In this context he would refer the statement made in paragraph 22 of the writ application. Counsel for the State, however, is not in a position to answer the said statement of counsel for the petitioner because his counter affidavit is incomplete and does not even answer the averment made in paragraph 22 of the writ application. This Court fails to understand as to for what purpose is 2 sought to be served by the Respondents by filing such half hearted and incomplete counter affidavit. It is high time for the officials of the State Government and the office of the Advocate General to take up the matter seriously and file a comprehensive counter affidavit dealing with averments made in each and every relevant paragraph of the writ application. In the premises of the aforementioned admitted facts that the appeal of the petitioner has not been disposed of till date though it has remained pending before the appellate authority for a period of almost seven years, this Court would direct the Director General Cum Inspector General of Police, Bihar to ensure that the appeal of the petitioner, if not disposed of till date, must be disposed of by a speaking order within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observations/directions this application is disposed of. Let a copy of this order be sent to the Learned Advocate General and also to the Director General of Police, Bihar. Abhay Kumar (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)