PATNA, May 14 -- Trouble has mounted for senior IAS officer Robert L. Chongthu, principal secretary to the Bihar Governor for a long time, as the Patna High Court has dismissed his quashing petition for relief in an Arms Act case involving distribution of weapon licenses without verification to the undeserving.

"As this case was lodged in 2003 for which cognizance was taken in the year 2022, whereafter almost no progress in the trial was made in the last more than two years, the trial court is directed to conclude the trial expeditiously, preferably within six months of this order after taking this matter on board, on day-to-day basis," said the bench of Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha. The order, passed on Friday, was uploaded on Tuesday. ...