Jyoti Saran, J. – It is feeling aggrieved by the order dated 22.4.1991 passed by the appellate authority in unsettling the decision of the Deputy Collector, Land Reforms under the Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), whereby the Deputy Collector, Land Reforms had rejected the preemption application filed by respondents no. 1 and 2 under section 16(3) of ‘the Act’ which order of the appellate authority has been affirmed by the revisional authority vide order dated 6.12.1991, that the purchaser-petitioner is before this Court through the writ petition to question the orders of the appellate and revisional authority, which are impugned at Annexures 2 and 4 respectively.

2. This writ petition was admitted for hearing by a Division Bench on 15.2.1993 which admission order directed the matter to be placed for hearing before a Division Bench. The writ petition was dismissed for non-prosecution on 6.12.2013. It was restored on 19.8.2014 vide order passed in M.J.C.No. 1929/2014 only to be again dismissed for default on 4.12.2014. A second restoration application was filed and vide order passed on 4.7.2