IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.17782 of 2010 1. SHATRUGHAN THAKUR S/O LATE RAM SUNDER THAKUR R/O VILL.- BIRTA TOLA, POST & P.S.- NAWTAN, DISTT.- WEST CHAMPARAN Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE DIRECTOR PRIMARY EDUCATION, BIHAR, PATNA 2. THE SECRETARY BIHAR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, PATNA 3. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH 4. THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH 5. THE SUB DIVISIONAL OFFICER, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH 6. THE SUB DIVISIONAL EDUCATION OFFICER, WEST CHAMPARAN, BETTIAH ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Suresh Pd Singh. For the State : AC to SC 8. For the BPSC: Mr.Sanajy Pandey. ____ 02. 16.5.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the BPSC as well as the State. What is the basis for seeking a direction for appointment of the petitioner as an Assistant Teacher on a recommendation made by the BPSC in the year 1994 is not understood by this Court as the issue of such appointment cannot remain alive for more than 15-16 years now, merely because some controversy with regard to the caste to which petitioner belonged became a subject matter of dispute. Since such appointments have been made decades ago, any appointment made from the select list comes to an end on completion of the exercise of such recommendation. Appointment is not a ongoing exercise that claim can be 2 entertained for such appointment over a long time span as if the selection list continues to survive or exist till eternity. Submission of the counsel for the petitioner that authorities are still seeking clarification on the issue does not revive the issue as such because letter writing is part of national past time of the various bureaucrats. The issue is whether the petitioner has a right for such appointment now in the year 2011 for a recommendation made in the year 1994. The Court in the above circumstance does not want to interfere in an otherwise dead issue. Writ is dismissed. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)