IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.3236 of 2008 1. Singhawara Anchal Matasyajivi Swablambi Sahkari Samiti Ltd., Singhawara through its Chief Executive Chalitar Sahni. 2. Chalitar Sahni, S/o Ram Khelawan Sahni, R/o Vill. + P.S. Singhawara, Dist. Darbhanga. -------- Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. R.N. Choudhary, Director Fisheries, Bihar, Patna. 3. Dwarika Pd. Gupta, the District Fisheries Officer cum Chief Executive Officer, Darbhanga. ------------ Respondents ----------- 3 25.08.2010 Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners and counsel for the State, this court is of the view that the order passed by the Director, Fisheries dated 3.10.2008 in Appeal Case No. 60 of 2007 may be bad or vulnerable order but no contempt will lie on the ground that the authority did not choose to follow the observation and direction given in the judgment of a similar case CWJC No. 10713 of 2007 disposed of on 24.4.2008. that judgment being confined to the parties of that case, no contempt would lie at the behest of the petitioner who was not a party to the said case. The order that has been passed by the Director, Fisheries on 3.10.2008, therefore, can be made subject matter of a fresh proceeding, a writ petition or a miscellaneous appeal, as the case may 2 be, but a contempt application would be wholly misconceived. That being so, this application, has no merit and is, accordingly, dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)