IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7451 of 1994 SRI MAHENDRA JHA Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 6. 27.8.2009 Heard Mr. Rajiv Kumar Verma, learned Senior counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. Mr. Verma with reference to two earlier orders of this Court dated 10.8.2009 and 17.8.2009 would submit that till date no one has turned up for filing of the substitution petition. He would, however, submit that there are very important questions of law in this case and as the widow may be benefited if the writ application is allowed, the same may be heard on merit even in absence of any substitution petition. The difficulty for this Court however is that once it would find that the sole writ petitioner is dead and has not been substituted, it has to only hold and declare that the writ petition itself has become incompetent. That being so, this writ application is dismissed on the ground of its having become incompetent. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/