IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10518 of 2005 MANISH KUMAR Son of Sri Chandra Shekhar Sharma, resident of Village Sohsa, P.S. Mehandia, District Arwal. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Home Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna.. 2.The Bihar Staff Selection Commission, through its Secretary, Bihar, Patna. 3.The Chairman, the Bihar Staff Selection Commission, Bihar, Patna. 4.The Joint Secretary, Staff Selection Commission, Bihar, Patna. ----------- 2 5/1/2010 No one appears for the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present. The following prayer made in this writ application, “(i)For quashing part of the Notice published in Hindi daily newspaper (Hindustan dated 13.7.05 by which the Syllabous of Commerce faculty has been published and subsidiary papers of the five subjects namely (a)Financial accounting, (b)Business Organisation (c)Principle Economics (d)Money and Banking and (e)Planning and Economic Development whereas the respondent authorities have already declared that the syllabus of examination for the appointment of police sub inspectors will be the same as of the subsidiary papers of the respective subjects of Patna University which is entirely different from the above said syllabus mentioned in aforesaid notice. (ii)For directing the respondent authorities to include only those subsidiary papers in commerce subject which are included in syllabus of subsidiary papers in subject commerce of the Patna University and to exclude the papers of the subject Economics from syllabus of the commerce as mentioned in 2 abovesaid notice. (iii)For a direction to the respondent authorities to define the whole syllabus of the subject commerce as has been defined by the respondent authorities in the case of subject Indian History (Medival to modern period) and the subject New Public Administration.” has now been rendered of an academic importance only in view of the fact that selection and appointment on the post of Sub. Inspector of police pursuant to advertisement No.7/04 has already been completed in all respect in the year 2008 and therefore now no useful purpose will be served by going into rationale or otherwise of the government decision explaining or expanding the course of study in certain subjects of that competitive examination held in the year 2005. That being so, this writ application by efflux of time has become infructuous and is, accordingly, dismissed. Abhay Kumar (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)