IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.5778 of 2011 Ashok Singh Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors 2 16.12.2011 The petitioner is a registered contractor in the Public Health Engineering Department, Munger bearing registration no.110 and is also an income tax payee. The petitioner is doing contract work for a period of long 35 years and now there are requisite criteria to submit recent character certificate for grant of contractual work. The petitioner submits that every department now insists for character certificate to be issued by the concerned District Magistrate. The petitioner filed an application for grant of character certificate way back on 14.12.2009 but till date no character certificate has been issued to him. The petitioner has made representation before the District Magistrate, Munger as well as the Sub-Divisional Officer, Munger Sadar. In the facts and circumstances of the case, I direct the Collector, Munger to pass an appropriate order on the representation of the petitioner in respect of grant of character certificate. The petitioner would also file a representation before the Collector, Munger within two weeks along with a copy of the application filed earlier for grant of character certificate. The learned Collector would pass appropriate order expeditiously preferably within a period of six weeks from the date of filing of the representation. It is made clear that I have not expressed any 2 opinion on the merits of the case. With the aforesaid observations and directions, this writ petition stands disposed of. KHAN (S.P. Singh,J)