IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1216 of 2010 NAGENDRA PRASAD SINGH S/O CHANDRADEO SINGH R/O MOHALLA- KADAMKUAN, NEW AREA, P.S.- KADAMKUAN, DISTT.- PATNA ……..Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA 2. THE PATNA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, PATNA THROUGH THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER PATNA 3. ADDITIONAL MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER PATNA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, PATNA ……..Respondents. ----------- 02. 16.02.2010 The grievance of the petitioner is short and simple. Petitioner is landowner and has got sanction for constructing a building of G+9th floor which was revised to G+7th floor. Now the petitioner sought sanction for constructing the 8th floor. The residents of the apartment objected. Allegedly after hearing the residents, the Patna Municipal Corporation granted sanction for construction of 8th Floor. Some of the residents who were objecting filed a writ petition. Apparently on coming to know that the writ petition had been filed, the Authorities of the Patna Municipal Corporation who sanctioned the said construction earlier, directed it to be stayed with consequential request to the police to see that no further construction is done on the 8th Floor. The writ petition filed by the residents was disposed of by this Court directing the Authorities of the Patna Municipal Corporation to hear the parties and take a 2 decision in the matter within a period of eight weeks. Petitioner submits that more than eight weeks have gone by and no decision has yet been taken. On behalf of the petitioner, it is submitted that the Authorities of the Municipal are showing that as there is no vigilance case instituted, no orders are required to be passed but the facts remain that there is an order for stoppage/suspicion of sanction and direction to the police to see that no construction activity is carried out on the 8th Floor. Learned counsel for the Corporation submits that if no order has been passed as yet as directed by this Court earlier, the orders would be duly passed within a period of one month after hearing the parties. Let it be recorded that this Court passed an order on 21.07.2009 in C.W.J.C. No. 7978 of 2009 fixing a period of eight weeks but several eight weeks have passed. In my view, it is high time that the Authorities of the Patna Municipal Corporation take a decision in the matter either to go by the sanction granted or to recall and/or cancel sanction, if otherwise permissible in law. Orders should be passed after hearing the parties in accordance with law. The Court will take very serious view of the matter, if this time no order is finally passed within a period of one month as fixed. With these observations and directions, the writ 3 petition stands disposed off. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J)