IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA First Appeal No.4 of 1991 St.Of Bihar Th.Coll.,Bhagalpur Versus Jyotish Madal & Ors. ---------------------------------- 14. 21.09.2011 Heard the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties on the interlocutory application No. 6379 of 2011. The learned counsel for the respondents submitted that in view of the judgment passed by the Apex Court in Civil Appeal No. 2780 of 1998 dated 14.1.2004 the lower court record of the case from which this first appeal arises is required to be sent down for decision as directed by the Apex Court in the said order which has been annexed as Annexure 1 to the said interlocutory application. The learned counsel submitted that 302 first appeals were filed arising out of 492 cases by the State of Bihar. The NTPC filed the aforesaid civil appeal before the Apex Court wherein the Apex Court directed that in all these cases NTPC may be added as party and the judgment and award passed by the Land Acquisition Judge were set aside and the mater was directed to remit back to the Land Acquisition Judge for a fresh decision after giving opportunity to NTPC. Considering the above decision of the Apex Court the interlocutory application No. 6379 of 2011 is allowed and the office is directed to send back the 2 lower court record within four weeks, if available in this first appeal, to the court concerned for proceeding ahead as directed by the Apex Court in the aforesaid civil appeal. Accordingly, this first appeal stand disposed of. S.S. (Mungeshwar Sahoo, J.)