IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3049 of 2007 Brajendra Kumar Yadav, son of late Sattan Yadav, resident of Village Gangta More, P.S. Gangta More, District Munger. --------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Secretary, Road Construction Department, New Secretariat, Patna. 3. Commissioner, Road Construction Department, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur. 4. Secretary to Commissioner, Road Construction Department, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur. 5. Superintendent Engineer, Road Construction Department, East Bihar Circle, Bhagalpur. 6. Executive Engineer, Road Construction Department, Munger. 7. Sub-Divisional Engineer, Road Construction Department, Hawali Kharagpur, Munger. ---------- Respondents ----------- 3 01.04.2011 No one appears on behalf of the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present and would submit that the death of the deceased employee took place in November, 1986 and this writ application has been filed after nearly two decades in the year 2007, seeking direction for appointment of the petitioner on compassionate ground. From the reading of the writ application it is also clear that the case of the petitioner was considered for compassionate appointment way back in the year 1990 and was rejected. The petitioner thereafter, however, has filed this writ application after inordinate delay of more than two decades and the explanation given 2 for such inordinate delay also does not stand to reason, inasmuch as, even if the petitioner was not communicated the decision of the Compassionate Appointment Committee taken in the year 1990, rejecting his case, though the same is shown to have communicated to him by letter no. 1063 dated 29th June, 1990 by the office of the Commissioner of Bhagalpur Division, he having been aware of the fact that his application for compassionate appointment had not been disposed of, had to move any court of law for redressal of such grievance at the earliest. In that view of the matter, the unexplained delay and laches by itself would be sufficient to reject the prayer of the petitioner for compassionate appointment. This Court can not now after twenty-five years of the death of the deceased employee exercise its discretion for appointing the petitioner on compassionate ground. That being so, this application, is devoid of any merit and is accordingly dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)