IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4995 of 2009 JAGANNATH PRASAD SINHA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR &ORS ----------- 04 16.7.2009 The petitioner has come to this Court claiming that the Circle Officer is not issuing rent receipt. Although his name is mutated in Jamabandi No. 45/25 in Case No. 428/1984. The petitioner and his late brother are purchasers of the said land, purchased in the year 1972. After the purchase their names were entered in Register-II. The brothers entered into a partition and thereafter Jamabandi were bifurcated, and on the basis of bifurcation the petitioner claims that he has been paying rent to the State of Bihar, up till 2003-2004. After 2003-2004, the rent receipts are not being issued to the petitioner on the ground that the jamabandi relating to the petitioner is lost. The petitioner filed an application before the District Collector, Muzaffarpur, vide Annexure- 9. The Collector, Muzaffarpur vide noting dated 12.3.2009 ordered that the Circle Officer should enquire into the mater and report to the Collector. The petitioner is aggrieved by the fact that the Circle Officer has not reported the matter back to the 2 Collector, as a result of which the petitioner is not being issued rent receipt. I accordingly direct, that the petitioner should appear with the copy of this order before the Circle Officer who are examining his sale deed and rent receipt upto the year 2003-2004 send an appropriate report to the Collector within a period of two months on receipt/production of this order. The Collector then shall pass an appropriate order after receiving the report of the Circle Officer. In case, the jamabandi is missing from the Record Room, the Collector should enquire into the matter and take appropriate action against the person and take steps to be constructing the missing jamabandi by directing the petitioner as well as any one concerned to produce the relevant documents. This writ application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations. P.K. (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)