IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.10589 of 2011 Gopal Prasad Singh Late Niranjan Prasad Singh Resident Of Village-Mahuwa, P.O-Arraha, P.S-Ghailadh, District- Madhepura--------------------------------------Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Principal Secretary, General Administration Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 4. The Principal Secretary Revenue and Land Reforms Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 5. The Under Secretary Revenue and Land Reforms Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 6. The Collector-Cum-District Magistrate, Madhepura. 7. The Sub- Divisional Officer, Udakishunganj, District- Madhepura---------------------------Respondents ---------------------------------- 4 15.10.2011 Heard learned counsel for the parties. Petitioner retired from service in the year 1994. He wants a direction upon the respondents to give him the benefit of first time bound promotion with effect from 1.4.1981 and second time bound promotion with effect from 1.4.1986. While the petitioner was in service there is no evidence that he had raised these issues and approached this Court to assert his right. He came before this Court only in the year 2008 seeking a direction to dispose off the representation of the petitioner. Speaking order contained in Annexure-1 has been passed by the District Magistrate rejecting the claim of the petitioner on the ground that petitioner had not passed departmental examination right till the age of 50 years. Even after that since the petitioner had superannuated in 2004 there is no occasion to give him any exemption for not passing the departmental examination as such exemption will relate to the date of the grant of exemption and not from any prior date. 2 In addition to that the Court is constrained to record that petitioner has been sleeping over his right for more than two and half decades. The question of discrimination if at all should have been raised in the year 2003 when such benefit accrued to some other employees but even that was not done at an appropriate time. This writ application is dismissed for the laches on the face of it. RPS ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)