The prayer in this writ petition is for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the Registrar and the Joint Registrar of the Patna High Court to ascertain from respondent no. 3. a Judge of this Court, as to whether the cases in which the petitioner appears as counsel shall be beard by the learned Judge or not.

A further direction has been sought for commanding the Registrar of this Court not to list the cases in which the petitioner appears as a counsel before the said learned Judge.

2. It has been alleged that there has been some unpleasant happening between the counsel and the said learned Judge resulting in initiation of a contempt proceeding against the said learned Judge. The said contempt proceeding was dismissed as being not maintainable by a judgment of the Special Bench, reported in AIR 1986 Pat 65. It has been averred that since then the Judge concerned has not been hearing and transferring the cases from his Court whenever the petitioner appears as a counsel. A list of cases has been disclosed in the writ petition which have been transferred by the learned Judge from his Court between the period December 1989 and January 1990. It has been contended that thi