IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2661 of 2003 DR.HEM SHANKAR SHARMA, son of Sri Murlidhar Sharma, resident of Mohalla Tilka Manjhi, P.S. Tilka Manjhi, District Bhagalpur. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR 2.Secretary, Department of Health (Medical Education, Family Planning and Indigenous Medicines) Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3.Additional Secretary, Department of Health (Medical Education, Family Planning and Indigenous Medicines) Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 4.Dr. Ramji Prasad, Assistant Professor, T.B. & Chest, Shree Krishna Memorial College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur. 5.Dr. Devendra Prasad Singh, Assistant Professor, T.B. & Chest, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur. 6.Dr. Ramesh Chandra Singh, Assistant Professor, T.B. & Chest, Nalanda Medical College & Hospital, Patna. 7.Dr. Jay Prakash Narayan, Assistant Professor, T.B. & Chest, Anugrah Narayan Medical College, Gaya. 8.Dr. Ashok Shankar Singh, Assistant Professor, T.B. & Chest, Patna Medical College & Hospital, Patna. ----------- 7 4.8.2010 No one appears for the petitioner. Counsel for the respondents are present. Prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “That in this writ application the petitioner prays for issuance of an appropriate writ/ order/ direction for quashing the inter-se seniority list of Assistant Professors (Medical Department) as circulated by the respondent no.3 contained in Memo No. 681 (17) dated 23.8.2002. The petitioner further prays to consider his case for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor (Medicine) in any of the State Medical College in the State of Bihar.” The dispute as with regard to inter-se seniority for the post of Assistant Professor has become really academic, inasmuch as, the petitioner was never appointed as an Assistant Professor. Additionally, this Court would find that the panel prepared in the 2 year 1995 has already been worked out by appointing persons from the panel and therefore after a gap of 15 years no useful purpose will be served by going into the issues raised in this writ application. That being so, this application is dismissed as having become infructuous. Abhay Kumar ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)