patna taking serious note of the fact that even 70 years after the enforcement of constitution the officers are still passing orders without giving notice of hearing to the affected persons the patna high court on thursday imposed a cost of rs 10000 on the art culture and youth affairs department of the state a single bench of justice p b bajanthari while disposing of a writ petition of one krishna kant prasad singh directed the state government to deposit the cost as imposed in the office of bihar legal services authority balsa the petitioner was aggrieved by the departments order whereby his pension was altered without giving notice to him the constitution of india came in 1950 and we are in the year 2022 courts have time and again held that if any persons right is affected having civil consequences a notice is warranted to follow the principle of natural justice if the deputy secretary has failed to comply the aforesaid issue and keep on passing various orders in this fashion it would result in financial loss to the state exchequer which ultimately has to be adjusted through taxpayers money the court remarked the inchargecumdeputy secretary of art culture and youth affairs department appeared in the court and admitted that no notice was sent by his predecessor bemused by such actions where the long serving bureaucrats are passing orders in usual fashion without following the natural justice principles the high court found this to be a fit case for imposing cost on the state to be realized by the erring officers