IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16056 of 2005 KRISHNA PRASAD CHOUDHARY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Petitioner: Mr. Tej Bahadur Singh, Sr.Advocate & M/s B.S.Pandey & Gyan Shankar, Advocates For the State: Mr. Ravi Verma, AC to GP-15. ---------- 2 27.9.2010 Heard learned counsel for the parties. There is sufficient material on record which is evident from counter affidavit that there was departmental proceeding including a criminal case was going on and that was the reason why the petitioner could not be granted promotion at the relevant time. There is no question of considering his claim for promotion now since the petitioner retired more than a decade ago and more so he has also been punished under Rule 43B of the Bihar Service Code. Even otherwise the claim or entitlement of the petitioner is too delayed in the day now since the claim for promotion is made from 1981 on the post of Executive Engineer. No case for any direction is made out since the service career of the petitioner seems to be chequered and that is great hurdle to grant him any indulgence to promote him now. This writ application is dismissed. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)