In Ram Babu Singh vs.The State of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar & Ors. (2025), Patna High Court's Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sudhir Singh and Justice Rajesh Kumar Verma delivered a 2-page long judgement dated November 1, 2025, wherein, it concluded:"the petitioner is directed to make an appropriate application before the Respondent No. 5 under the provisions of the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956, who shall consider and pass an appropriate order under Section 6 of the Act, preferably within a period of nine months from the date of filing of such representation, after giving opportunity of hearing to all the parties. 5. With the aforesaid observations and directions, the present writ petition stands disposed of." The respondent no. 5 was Circle Officer, Barhara, Bhojpur. This was the sixth judgement authored by Acting Chief Justice Sudhir Singh.
The other six respondents were: District Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara, Superintendent of Police, Bhojpur, Ara, Sub-Divisional Officer, Ara Sadar, Bhojpur, Circle Officer, Barhara, Bhojpur,Officer-in-Charge, Babura Police Station, Bhojpur, and Smt. Poonam Kumari Singh (61), Wife of Sanjay Kumar Singh @ Gandhi, Semra, Bhojpur.
The petitioner had prayed for issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the Respondent Authorities to immediately remove the illegal encroachment made by Smt. Poonam Kumari Singh (61), the Respondent No. 7 over the public village road in Village Semra, Bhojpur. He had also prayed for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the Respondents to conduct a thorough and time-bound inquiry into the illegal obstruction of the public road and to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) against the said Respondent for criminal intimidation and obstruction of public access. It was submitted on behalf of the petitioner that on a public land, encroachment has been made by the private parties.
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