IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.466 of 2007 MD.MOKHTA Son of Yakub resident of Village- Mahuawa, P.O.- Phulwaria, P.S.- Dhake, District- East Champaran ----------------Petitioner Versus 1. ASHOK KUMAR SINHA son of name not known Secretary cum Commissioner Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Patna 2. Sri. B. K. Singh, The Chief Engineer, Department of Water Resources, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The State of Bihar --------------------- Opposite Parties. ----------- 3. 7.7.2009 The application has been filed for initiating a contempt proceeding against the Opposite Party Nos. 1 and 2 for deliberately and willfully disobeying the order dated 22.6.2006 passed by this Court in C.W.J.C. No. 3067 of 2002. In the show cause filed on behalf of opposite party no. 2, the Chief Engineer, Department of Water Resources, Government of Bihar, it is stated that the case of the petitioner along with that of others was considered in terms of the directions of this Court in the order under contempt, as also in the light of the Uma Devi’s case reported in 2006(4) SCC 1, and their claim for regularization was rejected by order contained in memo no. 1768 dated 17.8.07 (Annexure-A). In the aforesaid circumstances, no case for proceeding under the contempt jurisdiction of this Court is made out. The application is, accordingly, dismissed. However, it would be open to the petitioner to challenge the order of rejection in appropriate proceedings. P. Kumar (Ramesh Kumar Datta, J.)