IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC NO.5593 OF 1997 DR. MRS. KUMUDINI JHA, WIFE OF DR. C. M. JHA, RESIDENT OF WESTGAURI TANK, P.S. LAHERIASARAI, DISTRICT DARBHANGA…. ….PETITIONER VERSUS 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR, 2. THE COMMISSIONER-CUM-SECRETARY, HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, NEW SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA, 3. THE ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER-CUM-SPECIAL SECRETARY HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA, 4. THE DEPUTY SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA, 5. DR. RAJNI SINHA WIFE OF NAME NOT KNOWN, 6. DR. SIMA CHOUDHARY WIFE OF NAME NOT KNOWN. BOTH CARE OF ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER-CUM- SPECIAL SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE GOVT. OF BIHAR, NEW SECRETARIAT, PATNA, 7. DR. (SMT.) POONAM PRASAD, 8. DR. (SMT.)RENU ROHTAGI, 9. DR. (SMT.)CHANDRA KIRAN, 10. DR. (SMT.) PREM LATA, 11. DR. (SMT.)SHAIL KUMARI SINGH ALL RESIDENTS ARE ASSTT. PROFESSOR IN OBSTETRICS & GYANECOLOGY… …RESPONDENTS WITH CWJC NO.9385 OF 2001 DR. MRS. KUMUDINI JHA, WIFE OF DR. C. M. JHA, RESIDENT OF WESTGAURI TANK, P.S. LAHERIASARAI, DISTRICT DARBHANGA…. ….PETITIONER VERSUS 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR, 2.THE COMMISSIONER-CUM-SECRETARY, HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, NEW SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA, 3.THE ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER-CUM-SPECIAL SECRETARY HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA, 4.THE DEPUTY SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA, 2 5.THE JOINT SECRETARY, MEDICAL EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION ;AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 6.THE ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR (MEDICAL EDUCATION), MEDICAL EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 7.DR. AMRITA SHARAN, W/O NAME NOT KNOWN. 8.DR. SIMA CHOUDHARY, W/O NAME NOT KNOWN. 9.DR. BRITATI MOITRA, W/O NAME NOT KNOWN. ALL CARE OF ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER CUM SPECIAL SECRETARY, HEALTH DEPARTMENT, MEDICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVT. OF BIHAR,NEW SECRETARIAT PATNA. ………………………RESPONDENTS. ----------- 15/ 27.07.2011 Learned counsel for the State has produced a copy of the notification dated 26.07.2011, showing the petitioner to have been promoted on the post of Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics in Darbhanga Medical College Hospital, Darbhanga. In that view of the matter, both these writ petitions either relating to the promotion of the petitioner on the post of Assistant Professor or on the post of Associate Professor have become infructuous. That being so, both these writ petitions are dismissed as having become infructuous. Ranjan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)