IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.159 of 2011 SANTOSH KUMAR S/O LATE YETENDRA PRASAD SINGH R/O VILL- GAUNPURA, P.S. PHULWARISHARIF, DIST. PATNA --- PETITIONER Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE COLLECTOR, PATNA, PATNA COLLECTORATE PATNA-4 3. THE DISTRICT LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER, PATNA COLLECTORATE CAMPUS, PATNA-4. 4. THE DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER, CONSTRUCTION, EASTERN CENTRAL RAILWAY (E.C.R.) RAJGIR DIST. NALANDA 5. SMT. SAYARA PRAVEEN W/O LATE GULAM NAVI SARWAR R/O VILL. GAUNPURA, P.O. AALAMPUR, GAUNPURA, P.S. PHULWARI SHARIF DIST. PATNA. --- RESPONDENTS. ----------- 02 07.01.2011 Grievance of the petitioner is that although 79 decimals of land appertaining to Khata no. 667, plot no. 4185 have been acquired but petitioner has been offered compensation in respect of only 0.38 acres of land. It is the stand of the petitioner that for the rest of the land the compensation has wrongly been paid to one Bibi Sayara Praveen. It appears from Annexure-5 that the writ petitioner has already filed the application objecting to the said payment before the respondent District Land Acquisition Officer, Patna (Annexure-5). It is the submission of the petitioner that the authorities are neither disposing of the said application nor making payment of the compensation amount to the petitioner for the entire land ( 0.79 decimals) allegedly acquired by the respondents. Learned counsel for the respondents on going through the application submits that the respondents particularly respondent no.3 District Land Acquisition Officer, Patna may be 2 directed by this Court to dispose of the pending application (Annexure-5) within a particular time frame. Learned counsel for the petitioner agrees to the aforesaid stand taken by the learned Assistant Counsel to Additional Advocate General no.1. Having considered the submissions made on behalf of the parties, this Court is satisfied that the present application may be disposed of by the following order:- Let the petitioner file a copy of Annexure-5 along with a copy of the present order before the respondent no.3 (District Land Acquisition Officer, Patna) within a period of 04 weeks from today. Respondent District Land Acquisition Officer shall consider the said application and dispose of the same by a reasoned order within 03 months from the date of filing of such application. Sym ( Kishore K. Mandal, J.)