IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION CASE NO.3682 OF 2011. DR. RAM DEO MAHTO(RETIRED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, MIT. MUZAFFARPUR), S/O LATE MUNESHWAR MAHTO, R/O MOHALLA SHUSHILA SADAN, NIRALA NAGAR, P.O. KOLUHA PAIGAMBARPUR, POLICE STATION AHIAPUR, DISTRICT MUZAFFARPUR. …………………PETITIONER. VERSUS 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR, THROUGH SRI ARUN KUMAR SINGH, THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF BIHAR, VIKASH BHAWAN, BAILY ROAD, PATNA. 2.SRI NEEL KAMAL, THE ADDITIONAL SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF BIHAR, VIKASH BHAWAN, BAILY ROAD, PATNA. 3.DR. BHAGWAN SINGH, THE DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF BIHAR, VIKASH BHAWAN, BAILY ROAD, PATNA. 4.SRI J.M. PILLAI, THE CHAIRMAN, BIHAR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, BAILY ROAD, PATNA. ……………CONTEMNOR-OPPOSITE PARTIES. ------------------ 3/ 16.12.2011 Having heard counsel for the parties and taking into account that a reasoned order has been passed by the opposite parties dated 11.11.2011, as contained in Annexure-C of the show cause reply in compliance of the order of this Court dated 03.08.2010 passed in C.W.J.C No. 9624 of 1997 and C.W.J.C No. 5684 of 1998, it has to be held that this contempt application has now become infructuous. The submission of Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner that the order passed in illegal and that promotion has been wrongly denied to the petitioner, however, cannot be gone into within the limited parameters of contempt jurisdiction. It would be infact always open for the petitioner to take appropriate steps as may be available to him in law for assailing the aforementioned order. With the aforesaid observation this application is disposed of. Ranjan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)