IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1339 of 2011 BIPIN KUMAR S/O Sri Raghunath Prasad R/O- Village- Desari, P.S. Desari, District Vaishali. ………………….Petitioner. Versus 1. THE UNION OF INDIA through the General Manager, E. C. Railway, Hajipur. 2. The General Manager (P), E.C. Railway, Hajipur. 3. The Sr. Personnel Officer (ESM), E.C. Railway, Hajipur. 4. The General Managaer (P) Western Railway Churchgate, Mumbai. 5. The Divisional Railway Manatger (E), Vadodara Division, Western Railway, Vadodara. 6. Shri Rajnish Kumar, O.S.- II, Statistical Department, E.C. Railway, Hajipur. ………………………….Respondents. ----------- 3 17.03.2011 The present writ petition has been filed against the order dated 10th November, 2010 passed in O.A. No.381 of 2010 in which the petitioner has chosen to question the seniority list of O.S. II Statistical Department, East Central Railway, Hajipur vide letter dated 15.01.2010 wherein the petitioner has been shown junior to Respondent no.6. Counsel for the petitioner submits that in this writ petition the petitioner has chosen to question the promotion order issued to Respondent no.6. The Tribunal has held that the original seniority lists were published on 31.07.2006 and 30.10.2006, vide Annexures- R/1 & R/2 to the O.A, and the present O.A. has been filed after lapse of more than three years of the cause of action and therefore the O.A. is barred by limitation. Accordingly, the O.A. was dismissed on the ground of limitation. We concur with the view of the Tribunal that as the petitioner has chosen to question the seniority list after lapse of 2 more than three years of the cause action, the same was fit to be dismissed on the ground of Limitation. The issue relating to promotion of petitioner was not the subject matter of the impugned order dated 10.11.2010 in connected O.A. No 381 of 2010, against which the present writ petition is filed. Apparently such a writ petition relating to promotion of the petitioner directly to this Court without approaching the Central Administrative Tribunal is not maintainable. In that view of the matter, we dismiss this writ application with a liberty to the petitioner to avail any other alternative remedy that may be open to him under law before the appropriate forum. Abhay Kumar ( T. Meena Kumari, J.) (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)