IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.10065 of 2008 Pankaj Kumar S/o Krishna Chandra Singh R/o village- Bahora, Ward No. 5, Anchal- Banmankhi, P.S.- Sarsi, District- Purnea-- ------------------------------------------------------Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. The District Magistrate, Purnea 3. S.D.O. Banmankhi, Distt. Purnea------Respondents --------------------------------- 5 9.12.2011 No body appears on behalf of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the State is present. This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that the petitioner should be allotted a fair price shop in the Gram Panchayat, Bahera, Anchal- Banmankhi. The ground of the petitioner is that two shops were to be allotted; one was for the general category person and other for backward class category. The prayer of the petitioner is that he is the only person in the general category and he ought to have been allotted the shop. Learned counsel for the State differing with the averments made by the petitioner submits that although the petitioner was at serial one in the merit list but he did not appear before the selection committee with the required document such as land possession certificate within the stipulated time and as such his candidature was rejected. Considering the statement made in the counter affidavit I find no merit in the writ petition and it is, thus, dismissed. RPS ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)