We take judicial notice of the number of Public Interest Litigations filed in this Court complaining that Jharkhand State is flooded with different type of scams. One of those is Bitumen scam, for which the instant Public Interest Litigation has been filed. It has been brought to our notice that in the matter of procurement of Bitumen there is large scale of irregularities and embezzlement not less than 100 crores of Rupees by the Engineers, Contractors and other persons having vested interest. It is stated that the Chief Engineer of various Zones have found various irregularities in the matter of procurement of Bitumen.

2. In paragraph No.11 of the Writ Petition various irregularities have been pointed out which reads as under:-

“That it is further stated that, the case of Kandra-Saraikela road and Adityapur-Kandra road is and eye opener to this Bitumen purchase scam, and the respondent No.6 & 7 have found the following irregularities. These two roads in Jamshedpur ( industrial area) have been taken up by the State Govt. for widening and strengthening at the total cost of 36 crores but unfortunately maximum money has been looted by the contractor,-politicians-engineers of