IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11702 of 2010 Manoranjan Prasad Singh Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors ----------- 2. 22.11.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the Bihar School Examination Board. The petitioner claims to have passed the Intermediate at the compartmental examination in the year 1986 from the Malti Dhari College, Nawatpur, Patna, prosecuting thereafter B.Sc. before the Magadh University and B.E.D.courses from the Patna University. Presently, he is described as in-charge Headmaster of a Girls High School at Bikram, Patna. He is desirous for the issuance of his final Intermediate certificate for the examination passed in 1986. There is absolutely no explanation for the gross and inordinate delay from 1986 to 2010 explaining the circumstances for the belated filing of the writ application. However, delay in a case of the present nature, not affecting any 3rd party rights or interests may be considered by the Court appropriately, but the nature of the order shall necessarily have to be appropriate. Merely, because the petitioner’s pleads that now needs the certificate failing which his job may be jeopardized cannot be sufficient justification for issuance of a mandamus. That the matter is undoubtedly stale and may require examination and hunting of old records. It shall necessarily 2 require deployment of separate manpower for hunting out old records, and shall deprive and affect current works because of deployment of specific manpower, for reason of the present order. The Court therefore only makes a pious observation that it expects the Board to make all reasonable efforts with regard to the issuance of the Intermediate certificate to the petitioner in accordance with law. The application stands disposed. Kamlesh (Navin Sinha, J.)