IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2643 of 2003 MOHINI MOHAN MISHRA, son of Late Ajab Lal Mishra, resident of Mohalla Sheopuri, P.O. Anisabad, District Patna … Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Commissioner, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. Under Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 4. Director, Agriculture, Bihar, Patna 5. Secretary cum Commissioner, Finance (Commercial Taxes) Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna … Respondents. 6. 20.7.2009 Heard counsel for the parties. The prayer in this writ application reads as follows: “ This application is in regard to the joint seniority list of Assistants, issued by the department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, under the signature of Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, vide letter no. 353 dated 26.3.2001 (Annexure 11) whereby the seniority of Assistants in Secretariat and attached offices of Govt. of Bihar has been revised and fixed in the light of the order dated 16.4.1999 passed by this Hon’ble Court (reported in 1999(2) PLJR page 217) and wherein the petitioner has been placed at Sl.No. 588, which is clearly without making necessary correction in regard to petitioner’s date of joining date of probation and date of 2 confirmation and adversely effecting petitioner’s claim for promotion to be determined in the light of Govt. circular No. 257 dt. 30.3.81 (Annexure 4).” Counsel for the petitioner would inform this Court that the dispute with regard to seniority in the gradation list of joint cadre of Assistant stands resolved by a Division Bench judgment of this Court dated 16th April, 1999 in the case of Gokul Prasad Singh & ors. vs. State of Bihar & ors. in C.W.J.C.No. 10944/1992 and its analogous cases as against which the matter has acquired finality in terms of the order of the Apex Court in the order dated 22nd Jaunary, 2002 in Civil Appeal No. 3616/2000. Counsel for the State as usual is not in a position to assist this Court because neither he has any instruction nor he has filed any counter affidavit. In this situation, this Court would dispose of the matter with a direction to the respondent no.2 the Secretary cum Commissioner, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna, 3 to look into the grievance of the petitioner in the light of the judgments referred above and give the same relief which has been given to the writ petitioners of the aforementioned writ application within a period of six months from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. The respondents while redressing the grievance of the petitioner would be required to pass a reasoned order in case if they hold that the case of the petitioner is not covered by the aforementioned judgment. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this application is finally disposed of. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/