ORAL JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P. B. BAJANTHRI)

Date : 18-12-2024 In the instant writ petition, petitioners have prayed for the following reliefs:

“A. A writ in the nature of CERTIORARI or any other appropriate writ/s, order/s, direction/s quashing the following:

i. The order dated 14.10.2022 vide Memo No. Excise Rev. Case No. 199/2022-246 passed in Excise Revision No. 199/2022 whereby and where under the Additional Chief Secretary, Bihar, Patna (Respondent No. 2) uphold the order dated 11.01.2022 passed by the Learned Excise Commissioner, Bihar Patna in Excise Appeal No. 881/2021 in which the learned Commissioner has confirmed the order dated 01.10.2021 passed by the Learned Additional Collector – cum- Additional District Magistrate, Nalanda in Excise Confiscation Case No. 65/2021 (in connection with Ekangarsarai P.S. Case No. 54 of 2020) and direction the learned Additional Collector – cum- Additional District Magistrate, Nalanda to proceed with auction in the confiscation proceeding as per the Act.

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ii. The order dated 13.03.2021 passed by the learned Additional District Magistrate – cum – Additional District Collector, Nalanda (Respondent No. 8) in Confiscat