IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7963 of 2003 SHIV JANAM SINGH S/O Late Ram Gohar Singh resident of Village Alawalpur, P.S. Gaurichak, (Fatuha) District Patna who retired on 31.12.1999 as Police inspector. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through Commissioner Cum Secretary, Department of Home, Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2.The Director General of Police, Bihar, Patna. 3.The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Special Branch, Bihar, Patna. ----------- 3 5/1/2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. In this writ application prayer of the petitioner reads as follows:- “(a) The Respondents be directed to give selection grade/Super Selection grade to the petitioner under the District Cadre or State Cadre Bihar Considering the working period on different posts with full satisfaction of authorities. (b) The Respondents be directed to grant benefits of selection/Super Selection grade to the petitioner from when the Juniors/below the ranking of State Seniority list were given selection grade. (c) The Respondents further be directed to give all the consequential benefits to the petitioner being a retired Police Inspector for which the petitioner is entitled since the date of Juniors were given selection grade.” The claim of the petitioner for promotion with effect from 1.1.1987 is based on certain events of the year 1996 when it is claimed that the persons junior to him were given promotion. The petitioner retired in the year 2 1999 and thereafter has filed this writ application on 8.8.2003. Strictly speaking this writ application pertains to raise a stale claim and there is no explanation for such inordinate delay with regard to raising the issue of promotion to which the petitioner becomes entitled in the year 1987. This Court therefore is not inclined to interfere in the matter and would leave the petitioner to seek his remedy before the respondents who may look into the grievance of the petitioner only from the angle as to whether any junior to the petitioner during the period the petitioner was in service was promoted on the basis of State gradation list and as per the decision of the D.G.P. It is however made clear that in any ad-hoc promotion in the C.I.D/Special Branch or any fortuitous arrangement on the higher post of the persons juniors to the petitioner would not make him eligible for grant of regular promotion w.e.f. 1.1.1987 or any subsequent date and the Respondents would decide to give promotion and other benefits to the petitioner if only anyone junior to the petitioner was given regular promotion with financial benefits during the period petitioner was in active service and even then ignored by way of non-consideration of his case for regular promotion. 3 With the aforementioned observation this application is disposed of. Abhay Kumar (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)