IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15852 of 2005 RAM BILASH SINGH SON OF BAJO SINGH RESIDENT OF MOHALLA NEW AREA NAWADAH TOWN, P.S. NAWADA DISTRICT NAWADA. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE DIRECTOR, PANCHAYAT RAJ, BIHAR, PATNA. 3. THE DISTRICT PANCHAYAT RAJ OFFICER NAWADAH. 4. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, NAWADAH. 5. THE BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OPFFICER, SIRDALLA, NAWADAH. 6. THE CIRCLE OFFICER, SIRDALLA, NAWADAH. ----------- 2 24/09/2010 Earlier the petitioner had come to this Court seeking a direction for grant of promotion in C.W.J.C. No. 408 of 2004. Writ application was disposed of with a direction upon the respondents to decide his claim. That claim has now been rejected vide order dated 2.8.2004 which is annexed as Annexure-9 to the writ application. Petitioner is not happy with the rejection order and is back again in the present writ application claiming grant of notional promotion to him. Director, Panchayati Raj has considered the claim of the petitioner and has categorically held that the question of granting substantive promotion to the petitioner could not be finalised due to exercise of creating a seniority list which had to be done on State - 2 - level. By the time seniority list was worked out, petitioner superannuated on 31.10.1999. After superannuation there was no question of considering the claim of the petitioner for promotion merely because some exercise was initiated earlier. The background under which such promotion can be given and the circumstance under which it cannot be given have already been dealt with in detail in the impugned order. The reason assigned therein is cogent and valid and no case for interference with the same is made out. This writ application is dismissed. AMIN/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)