PATNA, India, Oct. 3 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Sept. 3:

In the instant petition petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:

"a) For issuance of a writ or order or a direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing of the order dated 27.06.2025 issued vide memo number 3492/M by the respondent number 2 whereby the appeal preferred by the Petitioner against the order dated 19.11.202413 issued vide memo number 823/M by the respondent collector Madhubani has been rejected without any application of mind and thereby confirming the said order of the collector which is wholly illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction and unsustainable in the eye of law;

b) For further issuance of a writ or order or a direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing of the order dated 19.11.2024 issued vide memo number 823/M by the respondent collector Madhubani whereby the earnest money deposit made by the petitioner and the time of participation in the tender process has been forfeited and the petitioner has been debarred for a period of 2 years from participation in government tenders;

c) For further issuance of a writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondents to refund the earnest money deposit of the petitioner along with the interest from the date of deposit till the date of realization to the petitioner,

d) For further issuance of a writ or order or a direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to compensate the petitioner for having caused undue harassment suffered by the petitioner by participating in the tender process by completing all the required formalities against no mineral rights actually available due to absence of sand in the sandghats concerned;

e) For further a direction upon the respondents to initiate an independent inquiry into the roles and responsibility of the authorities concerned in certifying the cluster viability before tendering;

f) For grant of any other relief or reliefs to which the petitioner is found entitled to in the facts and circumstances of the case."

2. Perusal of the records, it is evident that show-cause was issued to the petitioner for furnishing his say in respect of proposal to blacklist him for two years. Petitioner had submitted application/representation on 30.10.2024, thereafter, he was blacklisted for a period of two years on 19.11.2024. He had preferred an appeal before the Appellate Authority and it was rejected on 27.06.2025.

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