1. In this writ application, the petitioner, Shiv Lochan Jha, has prayed for quashing an order contained in the letter of the Joint Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Revenue and Land Reforms Department dated the 20th Jan., 1981, directing that the settlement of the Makhana-cum-fishery rights of the tanks of Manigachi Anchal, for the years 1980-81 and 1981-82, be settled in favour of respondent No.7, for an annual Zama of Rs. 7,000 each year (commencing from the 1st Oct. and ending on the 30th Sept. every year). The petitioner has also challenged the order of the Commissioner of Darbhanga Division, dated the 17th March, 1981 (Annexure-6), by which he refused to interfere with the said order of the Government and observed that the Court of the Commissioner was not the forum where the petitioner should have gone for the cancellation of the impugned order.

2. The petitioners case is that for the year 1980-81 (1st Oct. 1980 to the 30th Sept. 1981), an open bid was held by the Block Development Officer cum Anchal Adhikari, for settlement of the Makhana cum fishery rights in five tanks of Manigachi Anchal, on the 10th Sept. 1980, at which the petitioner was the highest b