IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.6446 of 2009 SATYA NARAYAN SAH, son of Late Kedar Sah, resident of Village- Simarwara, P.O.-Simarwara, P.S.-Patepur, District-Vaishali. ………Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Forest and Environment Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Magistrate-cum-Collector, Vaishali, Chairman of the District Committee/Anushrawan Samiti, Vaishali. 4. Superintendent of Police, Vaishali, Member of Representatives of District Committee/Anushrawan Samiti, Vaishali. 5. The Divisional Forest Officer, Saran, Member Secretary, District Committee/Anushrawan Samiti, Vaishali. ……..Respondents. ----------- 03. 22.05.2009 The petitioner has come to this Court for issuance of a direction to the Respondent Divisional Forest Officer, Saran at Chapra for passing necessary orders on his application for grant of license to establish a Saw Mill under the provisions of Bihar Saw Mill (Regulation) Rules, 1990. Petitioner states that he had made an application with due fee in 1995 which is pending, meaning thereby that no license has been granted as yet. In my view, the entire exercise is now futile in view of the orders passed by the Apex Court in the case of D. Gobardhan versus the State of Tamilnadu wherein the Apex Court has clearly held that after 2001 no fresh license had been granted. It goes without saying that if for any reason license was not granted earlier, after passing of the orders of the Apex Court, no license can be granted. 2 In that view of the matter, the writ application of the petitioner itself has become infructuous and only this communication is required to be made by the Divisional Forest Officer, Saran at Chapra to the petitioner. The writ petition thus requires no consideration and is disposed of accordingly. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J)