IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.475 of 2010 Ashok Kumar Singh Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors ---------------------------------- 3. 26.08.2011 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Counsel for the State. Despite passage of one and half years no counter affidavit has been filed by the respondents. Counsel for the petitioner fairly submits that in August 2010 during pendency of the writ application the petitioner has been granted relief for promotion to the post of DY SP. But he desires shifting of the date of the same from the date that it has been given to his juniors i.e. February 2009. Since the substantive relief has been granted to the petitioner and the only question now is shifting of the date of promotion, a matter which may require an enquiry on facts, rather than to keep the application pending in the hope that the respondents may condescend to file a counter affidavit, the writ application is disposed with a direction to the office of Respondent no. 2 to decide the further representation of the petitioner with regard to shifting of the date of his promotion and dispose it off by a reasoned and speaking order within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt and/or presentation of a copy of this order. It is expected that if the respondents find justification in the claim or in any part of the claim necessary consequential orders shall be passed simultaneously. The Court hopes and trusts that the representation of the petitioner before the authorities shall not meet the same fate as the writ petition before this Court. The writ application stands disposed. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)