Patna High Court, Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.14919 of 2017 (CWJC), oral order dated 23-06-2025 before Honourable Mr. Justice Rajiv Roy. Petitioner Budhan Ram (son of Late Soukhi Ram, resident of Village Manikpur, P.S. Fulkaha, District Araria) had sought writs of Mandamus commanding the respondents — the State of Bihar, the District Magistrate and Land Acquisition Officer, Araria, the Anchal Adhikari, Narpatganj, and private respondent Shivanand Yadav — to pay award-money compensation for 29 decimals of his land (out of Area 98 decimals, Khata No.231, Plot Nos.1861 and 278) acquired for construction of an Indo Nepal road, and, failing payment, to remove the construction from the acquired land. On the date of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner (Mr. Mritunjay Prasad Singh, Adv.; respondents represented by Mr. Sajid Salim Khan) prayed for withdrawal of the petition, and the court dismissed it as withdrawn. No substantive issue on the compensation claim was adjudicated; no statute or precedent is cited and no compensation quantum is fixed anywhere in the judgment text.
