IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.8387 of 2002 SUDAMA SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 4 27.2.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State Government. In this writ application, the grievance of the petitioner as with regard to the impugned order dated 10.6.2002 seeking to allot the license in the name of the wife of late Siya Ram Singh on compassionate ground is being questioned by the petitioner, another dealer, under Public Distribution System on the ground that as late Siya Ram Singh had not completed a period of eight years, his wife was not entitled to be given such license on compassionate ground. This Court would find that the order dated 10.6.2002 was an appealable order but the petitioner did not choose to assail the same in appeal and as such, the point as to the mandatory condition of eight years, being a requirement for grant of license on compassionate ground, could not be examined by the authority. Today after seven years of continuation of the license in the name of the widow of late Siya Ram Singh, this Court would neither allow the petitioner to file an appeal nor would permit him to question the validity of grant of such licence in the name of widow of Late Siya Ram Singh in view of the fact that a period of 14 years has been completed from the year 1995 when such licence was granted to Late Siya Ram Singh. That being so, this application is wholly misconceived and the same is accordingly dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)