BISHWANATH DAS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In the year 1984, the citizen of the capital city of Bihar were shown the dream of having a road parallel to the river ganges as Marine Drive of Mumbai (then Bombay). Four decades later, it has now become a reality and from the J.P. Setu near Digha in the West, a road called the J.P. Ganga Path (named after the freedom fighter, late Jai Prakash Narain and popularly known as the River Front) connects East near Gulzarbagh where another river bridge, the Mahatma Gandhi Setu is present. Further, at regular intervals, it is being connected with the Ashok Raj Path, Patna (the road named after the popular Maurya King, Samrat Ashoka which again runs through the entire city from the East in Patna City to the West, Danapur).

(2.) It is now being extended towards far East and will join near Kangan ghat (Chimney ghat). There is also a story behind the name Kangan Ghat. It is said that Gobind Rai (as Guru Govind Singh ji was known in his childhood days) had thrown a gold bangle into the river as a message that one should keep away from the material things. Since then, it is known as Kangan ghat. The State government has ambitions plan of connecting the River Front by a Link Road with the Takhat Sri Harmandir Sahib Ji, the birth place of the tenth Sikh Guru, Sri Govind Singh Ji.

(3.) The petitioners are having their residence at a place near Chowk Police Station in Patna City on a road which is the part of the proposed Link road to connect the said J.P. Ganga Path (River Front) with the Takhat Sri Harimandir Ji, Patna Sahib for the smooth movement of lakhs of pilgrims who visit Gurudwara from all over the world specially during the birth celebration of the tenth Guru. They want realignment of the Link Road so that the unutilized land of the Chowk Police Station is used thus sparing their land.