1. The present case is illustrative of how responsible Officers abuse their power indiscriminately to the detriment of the rights of citizens. The petitioner is a proprietorship firm, which was running cold storage for storing potatoes/potatoes seeds. Its cold storage was allegedly arbitrarily sealed by the authorities of Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as "BIADA") and later realizing that the sealing would result in the stocks of potato to rot unsealed it, which was too late and which damage has left the petitioner to face large number of compensation applications lodged against the petitioner before the District Consumer Forum, Madhubani running into several lakh of rupees. BIADA defends its action and notwithstanding large number of cases filed against the petitioner, as well as, admission of its own Officers, denies any loss and seeks to cover it up for obvious fear of being held liable to compensate the petitioner and it is for these reliefs the writ petition ultimately came to be heard for.

2. Originally, the writ petition was filed against letter dated 30.10.2007 of the Executive Director f BIADA at Patna issued pursuant to teleph