IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2235 of 2008 SURYA NARAIN SHARMA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 03/ 18/02/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The issue that the seniority of a Dalpati for appointment as a Panchayat Sevak has to be computed from the date of the initial appointment as a Dalpati and not from the date of confirmation by the District Panchayat Officer stands concluded by decisions of this Court in C.W.J.C. No.6736/94 and analogous cases followed in L.P.A. No.1140/95 and more recently in C.W.J.C. No.2636 of 2006. Learned counsel for the State fairly submits that if the petitioner is conversed by any orders of this Court, as submitted, the respondents are obliged to consider the issue of seniority of the petitioner in accordance with the orders of this Court. Let such consideration be done and an appropriate reasoned and speaking order be passed within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. If the respondents propose to hold that the petitioner is not covered by the order of this Court and is entitled to no benefit thereunder, they shall be obliged to adequately reason and discuss the distinctive feature of the case of the petitioner which separates him on facts and law from that decided by this Court. The writ application stands disposed. KC/ ( Navin Sinha, J.)