IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.425 of 2008 DR.PRATIMA ROY @ PRATIMA ROY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the appellant : Mr. Sanjeev Kumar No.1, Advocate For the respondents : Mr. Anis Akhtar, Junior Counsel to Additional Advocate General-10 ------- P R E S E N T Hon'ble the Chief Justice & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kishore K. Mandal ----- Dated, the 05th August, 2008 The present case is a classic case of stale claim being pursued by the appellant. That the appellant had knowledge of a Notification dated 04th of May, 1981, whereby she came to be appointed as Civil Assistant Surgeon on regular basis with effect from 01.04.1981 is not in dispute. As a matter of fact, in the Notification dated 04th May, 1981, the appellant’s name appears at Serial no.10. If the appellant was aggrieved by the fact that his regularization as Assistant Civil Surgeon ought to have been effective from 26th May, 1976 when she initially joined the service on purely temporary ad hoc basis and not Ist April, 1981, she ought to have challenged the action that time which she did not. She waited for more than seven years and two decades and filed the present writ petition in the year 2008. With - 2 - all articulation in the prayer clauses in the writ petition, her principal grievance is that her date of entry in the cadre of Assistant civil Surgeon ought to have been 05th of June, 1976 in stead of 01st of April, 1981. The Single Judge rightly rejected the said claim on the ground of laches. We find no justification to take a different view. LPA is, accordingly, dismissed. R.M. Lodha, CJ Kishore K. Mandal, J. Sunil