CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. There are at least 1202 criminal cases pending throughout the State of Bihar in its every District, having common features, all based on allegation of large scale bungling and misappropriation of public property in the matter of procurement of paddy and supply of Customized Milled Rice (CMR).

2. Considering the enormity and magnitude of public money involved, which is said to have been misappropriated and bungled, while hearing this application, I intended to consider possibility of constituting a Special Investigating Team at the State level for more focused and concerted investigation into all the cases.

3. The allegations made in all these First Information Reports are almost identical and show involvement of the personnel of Bihar State Food & Civil Supplies Corporation, State Government Officials/Personnel, Rice Mill Owners and other persons connected in the said transactions. This Court had noticed that despite the fact that the allegations in all such cases were identical in nature, the cases are being investigated by the concerned Police Officers on case to case basis. Being of the view that misappro