IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7497 of 2011 Ajay Kumar, son of Late Baijnath Sao, Resident of village- Saichak, P.S. Beur, District- Patna, presently working as an Assistant Section-8, Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna. … Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Principal Secretary General Administrative Department, Bihar, Patna. 2. The Principal Secretary, General Administrative Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Secretary, Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Joint Secretary, General Administrative Department, Bihar, Patna. 5. The Under Secretary, Road Construction Department, Bihar, Patna. 6. Under Secretary, General Administrative Department, Bihar, Patna. … Respondents ----------- 2 10.08.2011 From the counter affidavit it does emerge that there was an occasion for the DPC to not consider the claim of promotion made by the petitioner alongwith his other colleagues including juniors because there was an order of suspension passed against him in contemplation of a departmental inquiry. That issue has not come to rest. If the petitioner is exonerated in the departmental inquiry, it will relate back to the period when the claim of the petitioner arose for consideration for promotion. If his guilt is established and some order of punishment comes to be passed that will be yet another issue. Claim for promotion will be considered if petitioner lodges his claim in yet another writ application if there is any need for the same. The court is not inclined to preempt things by interfering in this writ petition at this stage. The writ petition is dismissed with the aforesaid observation. Md. Ibrarul ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)