ORAL JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE)

Date : 19-01-2024 The petitioner claims that he has been relentlessly pursuing action against the encroachment of a public road and that there is no personal interest in the matter.

2. The petitioner had approached this Court with C.W.J.C. No. 817 of 1998, which was disposed of by Annexure-1 judgment directing the petitioner therein, who is the petitioner herein also to approach the authority under the provisions of the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956 (for brevity, the Act).

3. Later yet another writ petition was filed as C.W.J.C. No. 20403 of 2012 titled as Rabindra Kumar Singh v. The State of Bihar & Ors., wherein it was claimed that the Sub-Divisional Officer, Lakhisarai has passed an order for removal of encroachment, which had to be executed. It was alleged that despite passage of three years, the encroachment was not removed. There was a direction to comply with the order in the aforesaid writ petition.

4. When the authority proceeded with the matter, the 5th respondent herein; who was the party respondent in the earlier writ petitions also filed C.W.J.C. No. 191 of 2013 titled as Sidheshwar Prasad v. The State of Bihar &