IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2562 of 2004 DAYA NAND PRASAD, RETIRED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISHERIES (RESEARCH) SON OF LATE HARI NARAYAN PRASAD, RESIDENT OF BISHUN LAL MARKET, HAJIGANJ, P.O. PATNA CITY, P.S. CHOWK, DISTRICT PATNA. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 2. COMMISSIONER-CUM-SECRETARY, ANIMAL HUSBANDARY AND FISHERIES, VIKAS BHAWAN, PATNA. ----------- 5 12/07/2010 Only reason which the petitioner has given for filing writ application six years after his superannuation and for claiming promotion to the post in question from 16 years before that is filing of repeated representations by him before the respondents from time to time. Law is well settled on the subject that repeated representations is not a valid explanation for not moving the Court well in time for the relief. Writ application was filed in the year 2004, six years after the petitioner superannuated with a prayer that he is entitled to be promoted on regular basis to the post of District Fisheries Officer-cum-Chief Executive Officer from 21.6.1988 and as an Assistant Director of Fisheries thereafter. This Court fails to understand as to why the petitioner did not move this Court - 2 - while was in service and why he took another six years after superannuation to approach this Court. Such belated and stale claims are not to be entertained by this Court. Writ application is thus dismissed. AMIN (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)