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MOHIT KUMAR SHAH
Ganga Mandal – Appellant
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State of Bihar – Respondent
Mohit Kumar Shah, J.—The present writ petition has been filed by the petitioners, for payment of compensation to them as per the guidelines, issued by the Disaster Management Department, Government of Bihar, Patna, in view of the damage caused to their residential houses as well as household articles, due to widespread fire. The petitioners have further prayed for quashing of the enquiry report of the Circle Officer, Baheri, Darbhanga whereby and whereunder recommendation has been made for payment of compensation on the basis of enquiry conducted after lapse of a year of the incident in question.
2. The brief facts of the case, according to the petitioners, are that on 12.04.2016, at about 11 a.m. widespread fire had engulfed the houses situated at village-Rupauliya, P.O.- Khangraitha, P.S. -Baheri, District-Darbhanga, leading to the residential houses of altogether 95 families, including the petitioners, being fully damaged and destroyed. On the same day, the matter was enquired into by the Revenue Karmchari and he had submitted a report dated 12.04.2016, before the Circle Officer, Baheri, Dist.-Darbhanga, inter alia stating therein that the residential kachcha houses (mud houses)
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