IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.2840 of 2026 ====================================================== Pramod Kumar Gupta Son of Bhagwat Prasad, Resident of Bari Patan Devi Mandir Morkepaas, Post Gulzarbagh, City Bank Chak, PS Alamganj, District Patna (Bihar). ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Principal Secretary, Department of Revenue and Land Reforms, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2. The District Magistrate, Patna, Bihar. 3. The Deputy Development Commissioner-cum-District Land Acquisition Officer, Patna. 4. The Circle Officer, Patna Sadar, District Patna. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bijay Kumar Pandey, Advocate : Mr. Amarendra Narayan, Advocate : Mr. Abdul Wadood, Advocate : Mr. Amitabh Ranjan Mishra, Advocate For the State : Mr. Standing Counsel (20) : Mr. Mahtab Alam, AC to SC-20 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 2 19-02-2026 Heard the parties. 2. The present petition has been preferred for the grant of following relief(s): “(i) for issuance of a writ of appropriate nature order or direction commanding and directing the respondent revenue authorities to incorporate petitioner's name in the jamabandi and corresponding raiyati rights in the revenue records and in its digital versions on the Parimarjan Plus/Bihar Bhumi online portal against petitioner's application No. 252839282881185 and to complete the process Patna High Court CWJC No.2840 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 2/3 of digitization within a time frame to be fixed by this Hon'ble Court. (ii) for issuance of writ of an appropriate nature order or direction commanding the respondent authorities. particularly Respondent Nos. 2 and 4 to reconstruct Jamabandi relating to Jamabandi No. 6 of Mauza Kajiapur, Halka - Bankipur, Thana No. 04, Ward No. 12. pertaining to Plot Nos. 1776, 1777, 1778 and 1779 by recording the petitioner's name in place of his ancestors in the revenue records and digitized Jamabandi and to issue rent receipts in the name of petitioners, after accepting rent from him as usual, which were being issued in the name of his ancestors. (iii) for grant of any other relief or reliefs to which the petitioner may be found entitled in the facts and circumstances of the present case.” 3. The matter relates to a piece of land under Mauza- Kajiapur/Balipur, Circle Patna Sadar. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the application was submitted before the Circle Officer, Patna Sadar, Patna on 8th September, 2025 but despite the thirty days period that has been allowed to the revenue officers to dispose of the petition, till date the said said officer, the Circle Officer, Patna Sadar, Patna (respondent no.4) has not disposed it of. Patna High Court CWJC No.2840 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 3/3 4. Learned State counsel submits that immediate steps shall be taken and the Circle Officer, Sadar, Patna shall be disposing of the petition of the petitioner. 5. It is unfortunate that despite the State Government restricting the time limit for a Revenue Officer to dispose of any petition, the concerned Revenue Official sat over the file of the petitioner forcing him to invoke the writ jurisdiction. He has to take steps and dispose of the petition of the petitioner within a period of thirty days from today failing which the petitioner shall be free to take steps for filing an appropriate petition for initiation of contempt proceeding against him/her. 6. The writ petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observation and the order has been passed in the presence of learned State counsel who undertakes to inform the Circle Officer, Sadar, Patna today itself. vinayak/- (Rajiv Roy, J) U