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2019 DIGILAW 1346 (PAT)

Santosh Kumar Jalan, S/o Late Badri Prasad Jalan v. State of Bihar through Principal Secretary, Department of Industries, Government of Bihar, Patna

2019-09-30

RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD

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ORDER : 1. Heard learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel representing the respondents – Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority. 2. The petitioner, in this case, is aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the order dated 27.05.2019 passed by Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Industries, Government of Bihar in Appeal Case No. 35/2014 whereby the appeal preferred by the petitioner against the order cancelling the allotment of his industrial plot has been dismissed. 3. Mr. N.K. Agrawal, learned Senior Counsel representing the petitioner submits that it is a case of violation of principles of natural justice wherein the very cancellation order dated 19.05.2007 was not served upon the petitioner and further the Appellate Authority could not appreciate that the inquiries conducted by the Department during the pendency of the appeal cannot be taken to be a conclusive proof of fact that the unit in question is not functioning. 4. Mr. Prashant Pratap, learned counsel representing the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (in short the ‘BIADA’) submits that these are the matters of allotment of industrial plots and should be considered from a larger public interest purview. It is his submission that an individual interest of the petitioner has to be out-weighed against the larger public interest on the face of the materials which have come on the record. Learned counsel submits that the contention of learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner that the order of cancellation passed in the year 2007 was not served upon the petitioner is not correct inasmuch as the ‘BIADA’ has produced the proof of service by placing on record the proof that the said decision cancelling the allotment of the petitioner was sent through Currier and that was not returned unserved. Further learned counsel submits that the industrial plot was given to the petitioner for carrying industrial activity but instead of carrying the industrial activity the petitioner was utilizing the industrial plot for some kind of residential purpose. 5. In this connection, attention of this court has been drawn towards the findings which have been recorded by the Appellate Authority on the strength of the inquiry report submitted after the spot verification on 23.05.2019. 6. Mr. Prashant Pratap, learned counsel has also drawn attention of this court to show from Annexure ‘11’ and ‘12’ to the writ application itself that in the year 2014 the petitioner has shown his total sale/turnover of Rs. 9,450/-. 6. Mr. Prashant Pratap, learned counsel has also drawn attention of this court to show from Annexure ‘11’ and ‘12’ to the writ application itself that in the year 2014 the petitioner has shown his total sale/turnover of Rs. 9,450/-. He has further shown from the electricity bill of the year 2001 that the past and present reading remained the same which demonstrate that there was no consumption of electricity in running the unit. Learned counsel submits that in these circumstances the principles of natural justice cannot be put in a straight jacket formula so as to defeat the larger public interest. 7. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and upon perusal of the records, this court finds that it is a case in which in the year 1996 the industrial plot was allotted to the petitioner, the purpose behind the same was setting up of an industry but the materials available on the record shows that no industrial activities were going on for the last several years. 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With the writ application no prima-facie material has been brought on record to controvert the findings and as such this court sitting under Article 226 of the Constitution of India would not exercise it’s power of judicial review to interfere with the impugned order in absence of any material to show that the finding is perverse and requires any interference. It is a case for issuance of a writ of certiorari and the principle is well-settled that while exercising it’s power to issue a writ in the nature of certiorari the Court under Article 226 does not sit in appeal and does not exercise an appellate power. The writ of certiorari is issued only when the court finds that the impugned order suffers from perversity. The settled proposition of law is that the writ of certiorari should not be issued only on making out of a legal point. 9. In the opinion of this court, even that legal point is missing. Finding no reason to interfere with the impugned order. 10. The Writ Application is dismissed.