IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15097 of 2008 UTTAR BIHAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, having its office near Sports Club, P S – Chhatauni, P.O. Motihari, District – East Champaran represented through Ravindra Pratap Singh, son of late Jang Bahadur Singh, resident of village – Rajapur Mathia, P O-Dumra, P S – Kotwa, District – East Champaran. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. The Commissioner cum Secretary, Public Work Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Chief Engineer, N H Wing, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Superintending Engineer, N H Circle, Muzaffarpur. 5. The Executive Engineer, N H Division, Motihari. 6. The Engineer-in-Chief, PWD, Govt. of Bihar, Bishweshariya Bhawan, Bailey Road, Patna. 7. The Union of India represented through its Secretary, Road Transport Highway & Aviation, New Delhi – 110 001. ----------- For the petitioner : Mr. Prakash Srivastava. For the union of India : Mr. S M Iqbal Hasan Rahmani (CGC). -------- 02. 03.05.2010 The reason why the petitioner filed the present writ application is non-payment of his bill to the tune of Rs.2,01,290/-. The claim has been made by the petitioner against the completed work for Agreement No. 43/F-2 of 200-01 from Km 61 (500 metres) to Km 65 (another 500 metre) on N H 28A. Petitioner has brought evidence on record to show that after completion of the work bills were presented and even passed. Annexure-3 in this regard is the evidence in support of the said pleadings but despite passing of the bill for the reasons best known to the respondents, final payment has not accrued to him. Writ was filed way back in the year 2008 and the respondent authorities have not bothered to file counter affidavit denying the claim of the petitioner. 2 In view of the above, the writ application is disposed of with a direction upon respondents No.2 and 3 that they shall take steps for payment of the bills of the petitioner taking into consideration annexure-3, ff there is no other legal impediment, within three weeks from the date of communication / production of a copy of this order. The writ application stands disposed of with above direction. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J )