Sushil Kumar Singh vs State of Bihar - 2025 Supreme(Pat) 1456

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2025 Supreme(Pat) 1456

SOURENDRA PANDEY, RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD
Sushil Kumar Singh – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: M/s Hari Kishore Thakur, Aditya Dev.
For the State : Mr. Sumant Kumar Singh, AC to GA-2.
For the Resp. No.9 : M/s Alok Kumar Alok, Vivek Kumar Pandey.
For the E.O.U. : M/s V.N.P. Sinha, Sr. Adv., Vijay Anand.

Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, J.—We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned AC to GA-2 to the State and learned counsel for respondent No. 9.

2. Pursuant to the order dated 14.11.2025, the ADM, Muzaffarpur, Assistant Commissioner (Excise), Muzaffarpur and the Motor Vehicle Inspector, Muzaffapur (in short the “MVI, Muzaffarpur”) are present in person with the records.

3. This Court has interacted with all the officers in course of hearing.

Reliefs Prayed

4. (i) The present writ application has been filed seeking a writ in nature of a writ of certiorari to quash and cancel the auction sale of Mahindra Scorpio S9 vehicle, bearing Registration No. BR06PE-1648, Chasis No. MAITA2WR2J2L10413 and Engine No. WRJ4L10413, which has been auctioned on 31.03.2023 vide Memo No. 939 dated 08.04.2023 (Annexure-P/4). The petitioner has alternatively prayed for award of a compensation to the tune of Rs. 12,12,517/-, which was the insured value of the vehicle at the time of seizure.

(ii) The order passed by the Revisional Authority on 05.06.2025 in Excise Revision Case No. 11 of 2025 (Annexure- P/9) by which the Secretary (Liquor Prohibition and Excise), Govt. of Bihar, Patna has refused to interfer