IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2087 of 2000 PUNAM KUMARI Versus SRI ANJANI KUMAR VERMA & ORS ----------- For the Petitioner : Mr. S. P. Shrivastava For the Respondents 1 to 7: M/S. S. K. Ghosh, A.A.G. II & Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, J.C. ------------ P R E S E N T Hon'ble the Chief Justice & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kishore K. Mandal ------------ Dated, the 29th July, 2008. In view of the order passed by us today separately in M.J.C. No. 2341 of 1999 (Manorama Kumari & Others vs. Anjani Kumar Verma & Others), we dispose of this M.J.C. for the self same reasons. 2. More than ten years have passed and yet the order of this Court remains to be complied with. Ordinarily, for this lapse, the respondents could have been proceeded with under the contempt jurisdiction of this Court. But we do not do so as, in our view, the interest of justice will be sub-served if the Director-in-Chief, Department of Health, Government of Bihar, Patna, now in compliance of the order of this Court, considers the case of each of the petitioners in the light of Sudha Kuamri’s case and passes a speaking order within one month from the date of receipt of the order of this Court. 3. We make it clear that non-compliance of this order - 2 - within the aforesaid time, shall be treated as deliberate defiance and disobedience of the order of this Court and the Director-in-Chief, Department of Health, Government of Bihar, Patna may expose herself to an action under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. 4. M.J.C. stands disposed of. R. M. Lodha, CJ Kishore K. Mandal, J AMIN/-