IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.3749 of 2010 Dr.Nawal Kishore Choudhary, S/o-Late Raghunath Choudhary, resident of village Shreerampur Ayodhya, P.O. & P.S.-Waini, District-Samastipur, Bihar. -Petitioner. WITH MJC No.3978 of 2010 1. Dr.Brij Singh, S/o-Late Bishwa Nath Singh, resident of Village-Majharia, P.O. & P.S. Majharia, District-Buxar, Bihar. 2. Dr. Sharda Nand Prasad, S/o-Sri Chandra Prasad, resident of Village-Karba Kurha, P.S.-Paliganj, District-Patna, Bihar at present residing at Bihar Agriculture College, Sabour, P.O. & P.S. Sabour, District-Bhagalpur. 3. Dr. Ram Prasad Yadav, S/o-Late Kunj Bihari Yadav, resident of Village- Adharpur, P.O. & P.S.-Khangraitha (Haheri), District-Darbhanga, at present residing at B2/9, RAU Campus, Pusa, P.O. & P.S.-Pusa, District-Samastipur. 4. Mahendra Prasad Singh, S/o-Sri Sant Bilas Singh, resident of Village-Sarkar Tola, Bihar Agriculture College Campus, Sabour, P.O. & P.S.-Sabour, District- Bhagalpur, Bihar. 5. Dr. Indradeo Narayan Sharma, S/o-Late Aash Karan Rai, resident of Village- Babupur, P.O.-Bakharpur, P.S.-Pirpainti, District-Bhagalpur, Bihar at present residing at Jute Research Station, P.O.-Tingachia, P.S.-Katihar, District-Katihar. -Petitioners VERSUS 1. Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar, Pusa (Samastipur). 2. Dr. Ramesh Chandra Rai, Registrar, Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar, Pusa (Samastipur). 3. Dr. Mewa Lal Choudhary, Vice-Chancellor, Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar, Pusa (Samastipur). 4. Dr. Vijay Prasad Singh, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar, Pusa (Samastipur). 5. State of Bihar. 6. Sri Ashok Kumar Sinha, the Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of Bihar, Patna. –Opposite Parties. ----------- 03 06.10.2010 In my view, both the contempt applications are misconceived. These two contempt applications have been filed by teachers of Rajendra Agricultural University governed by the Rajendra Agriculture University Act, 1976. Mr. Y.V. Giri, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners urges that the petitioners were applicants whose writ - 2 - petitions were disposed of along with batch of other cases in the presence of counsel for the Rajendra Agricultural University and, as such, the said judgment would bind the University as well. I have perused the judgment. No doubt Mr. Giri is correct that the petitioners were party in the analogous cases but that position was a misconceived position as the judgment would reveal. The judgment is dealing only with the provisions of the Bihar Universities Act, 1976 and Patna University Act, 1976. There is not a whisper in the entire judgment with regard to the provisions of the Rajendra Agricultural University Act. That matter was neither argued nor decided. After this order was passed Mr. Giri requests that the writ petition and the review applications may be heard and the contempt applications kept alive. This argument is noted only to be rejected. For proceeding in a matter of contempt a conscious disregard to order of Court is primal requirement which is admittedly and undisputedly missing in this case. Thus, these two applications cannot be entertained and dismissed accordingly. The connected writ applications would now be taken up for hearing and disposed of at the stage of Admission itself. Trivedi/ (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.)