Nitika Kumari @ Nitika v. The State Election Commission (Panchayat)
Letters Patent Appeal – withdrawal
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Letters Patent Appeal No.5 of 2025 in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.4137 of 2024; Nitika Kumari @ Nitika v. State Election Commission (Panchayat), State of Bihar and others including private respondent Krishna Kumari Yadav; Bench: Chief Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo (author) and Harish Kumar, J.; decision date 17-03-2026; appeal dismissed as infructuous on the appellant's withdrawal prayer; purely procedural order — no ratio on merits, no statutes or cases cited, no costs or amounts; of limited precedential value.
What did the court decide?
On the appellant's submission that the matter had become infructuous and the prayer for withdrawal, the Letters Patent Appeal stands dismissed as having become infructuous. No question of law or fact was adjudicated on merits. ¶23