IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4714 of 2007 1. Arun Kumar, son of late Shyamanand Singh, resident of Village Jagarnathpur Mal, P.S. Kahalgaon, Dist. Bhagalpur. 2. Anil Kumar Mandal, son of Sri Baijnath Mandal, resident of Village Ekchari, Police Kahalgaon, Dist. Bhagalpur. ------- Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Bihar through its Secretary, Panchayat Raj, Patna. 2. The Director, Panchayat Raj, Patna. 3. The Divisional Commissioner, Bhagalpur. 4. The District Magistrate, Bhagalpur. 5. The District Education Officer, Bhagalpur. 6. The District Education Superintendent cum District Programme Implementor, Bhagalpur. 7. The Regional Officer, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur. 8. The Block Development Officer, Kahalgaon, Dist. Bhagalpur. 9. The Block Education Extension Officer, Kahalgaon, Dist. Bhagalpur. 10. The Mukhiya, Ekchari Grampanchayat, Kahalgaon, Dist. Bhagalpur. ------- Respondents ----------- 2 17.08.2011 No one appears on behalf of the petitioners. Counsel for the State is present. The grievance raised in present writ application, relating to termination of the services of the petitioners on the post of Panchayat Shikshak in terms of Rule 18 of the Panchayat Shikshak Rules, 2006, ought to have been initially pressed before the Statutory Forum which earlier was the Block Development Officer before its being substituted by District Teachers Appellate Authority. That 2 however having been not done by the petitioner, this writ application, in view of his not exhausting statutory alternative remedy, is not maintainable. Since the counsel for the petitioners is not present in this Court, the petitioners, if they intend to pursue their claim by assailing the order of their termination, nothing said in this order will come in their way in moving the District Teachers Appellate Authority. As this misconceived writ application has eaten away the statutory time limit of filing complaint by the petitioners, this Court would also observe that any complaint filed by the petitioners within sixty days from today relating to the grievance raised in this writ application, shall be considered and decided on merit and will not be rejected on the ground of limitation. With the aforementioned observations and direction, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)