Alakh Niranjan Prasad v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.20144 of 2016 ====================================================== Alakh Niranjan Prasad S/o Sri Surendra Prasad, resident at- Banjari Road Adshiwakta Nagar, Ward no.-14, Gopalganj, P.O., P.S. and DistrictGopalganj. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State Of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Old Secretariat, Patna, Bihar 2.

The Secretary, Department of Water Resources-cum- Chairman, Bihar, State Construction Corporation Ltd. Patna 3.

The Bihar State Construction Corporation Limited through its Managing Director and its Headquarter at Khwaja Imli, Anisabad, Patna 4.

The Managing Director, Bihar State Construction Corporation Limited, Office at Khwaja Imli, Anisabad 5.

The Secretary, Administration, Bihar State Construction Corporation Limited, Office at Khwaja Imli, Anisabad, Patna ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Bipin Bihari Singh, Advocate For the Respondent/s :

Mr.Anjani Kumar-AAG-4 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL JUDGMENT Date : 09-07-2020 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

It is submitted on behalf of the respondent/Bihar State Construction Corporation Ltd. (for short "Corporation") that in similar circumstances, earlier a Division Bench of this Court in Letters Patent Appeal No. 177 of 2018(The Chairman, Bihar State Consruction Corporation Ltd. vs. Ishwar Chandra Sharma and Ors.), vide judgement/order dated 08.10.2018, has been pleased to observe following:-

Patna High Court CWJC No.20144 of 2016 dt.09-07-2020 2/3 "In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, and in view of the changed circumstances referred to hereinabove, present Letters Patent Appeal is allowed and the impugned judgment and order passed by the learned Single Judge is, hereby, quashed and set aside with liberty to the original writ petitioner, either to intervene in the said proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata Bench or to wait for the outcome and then take appropriate steps, in accordance with law, before the appropriate forum. It will be open for the original writ petitioner to submit an appropriate application before the National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata Bench for payment of his dues pointing out the special circumstances, and the learned Tribunal may consider the same, in accordance with law, for which we have not expressed anything in favour of any party."

It has further been submitted on behalf of respondent/Corporation that recently, an order has also been passed on 16th October, 2019 by the Member (J), National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata Bench, whereby; Moratorium was declared for the purposes referred to in Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

Patna High Court CWJC No.20144 of 2016 dt.09-07-2020 3/3 In the light of above submission on behalf of respondent/Corporation as well as order dated 16.10.19, this writ may be disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner either to intervene in the said proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata Bench or to wait for the outcome and then take appropriate steps before the appropriate forum.

With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is disposed of.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) vinita/- AFR/NAFR NAFR CAV DATE NA Uploading Date 10.7.2020.

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