IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.10693 of 2026 ====================================================== Shanti Devi, ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Ramchandra Singh, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr.Standing Counsel (4) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 2 24-07-2026 Heard the parties. 2. The present petition has been preferred for the following relief/s: (i) for issuance of writ in the nature of mandamus or any other writ/writs or direction/directions to the respondents (Collector Purnea) either to grant stay or to dispose off J.C. App. No. 30/2026 and 132/2024 of the petitioners as well as to the respondent no.4 not to mutate the land of the petitioners to other persons till the passing the order by the competent authority or physical possession over the land in question. 3. It is unfortunate that the petitioners have to move Patna High Court CWJC No.10693 of 2026(2) dt.24-07-2026 2/2 before this Court with a simple prayer to dispose of the J.C. App. No. 30/2026 and 132 of 2024 pending before the Collector, Purnea. 4. Learned State counsel submits that if it has not been disposed of, it will be taken to its logical conclusion at an earliest. 5. Accepting the version of the learned State counsel as also directing the concerned respondent no.02, the Collector, Purnea to immediately take up the matter and dispose it of within a period of four months, the writ petition is disposed of. 6. Any development that will take place in between shall be subject to the final outcome of the order passed by the Collector, Purnea. Ravi/- (Rajiv Roy, J) U