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6 Then, allegations have been made against Income Tax Department. At present, the Court will leave this aspect out in reference to this particular Department as this Department deals with tax payable on incomes from whatever sources or incomes escaping assessment.

7. The issue in the present petition is not different than what is reported in the media practically every day, if not in the State of Bihar, but even beyond the State. It is a matter which relates to the illicit trade in coal. One too often reads of a coal mafia which runs a parallel economy and Government, both, from the place where coal is mined and right through its different modalities of transportation. Bihar is rich in deposits of coal and other national resources. The petitioner alleges that there is no straight trading in coal and every step of it from the time it is extracted from mines and its production, distribution and sale, it is controlled by a parallel power in a parallel market which generates a parallel economy. Everybody talks about this illicit trade in coal in whispers. The media reports on it everyday but nobody seems to have any solution on how this clandestine control over the mining and transport operations of coal will be divested from agencies who have ousted the State, whether central or provincial. The writ petition points to a Government of India report.

12. The law does not permit parallel trading operations, nor suffers the existence of a parallel economy. In general parlance known as black marketeering. Such a petition must not be delayed in its pendency, and yet it cannot proceed unless all those who have been made party respondents and are otherwise respondents within the meaning of the State answer the petition.

13. No respondent can say that there is lack of opportunity being denied. The record speaks in ample measure that the opportunity was always there, but these respondents are a simply, for whatever be the reason, are avoiding to answer the petition. For instance, Counsel appearing for the Union of India, Sri A.K. Trivedi acknowledges that notice on Union of India, Ministry of Coal, (Respondent No. 1); Ministry of Coal, Government of India, New Delhi (Respondent No. 2), and Secretary Home, Union of India (Respondent No. 6) was received on 25th August 1999 and he entered appearance on the same day and notices were despatched to them by the Standing Counsel on 27.8.1999.