IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.85 of 2009 Rokhsana Khanam, D/W of Md.Niyamuddin ,R/O of Village Piro, P.S.Piro, distt-Bhojpur.Appellant. Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Director, Primary Education, Bihar, Patna 2. The Divisional Commissioner, Patna 3. The Deputy Development Commissioner, Ara, Bhojpur 4. The Regional Deputy Director of Education, Patna 5. The District Superintendent of Education, Ara, Bhojpur-Respondents. For the appellant : Mr. Ji Shankar Pathak For the respondents : JC to G.A.V. ----- Reg: I.A.No.456/2009. 2. 23.1.2009. This application has been filed fro condoning the delay in filing the appeal. The grounds set forth in the petition for condoning the delay do not constitute sufficient cause. Accordingly, we are of the opinion that the delay of 235 days in filing of the appeal is not fit to be condoned. Application stands dismissed. However, good cause may not be lost on the ground of limitation, we have considered the legality and validity of the impugned order. Appellant’s earlier prayer in the writ application was to direct the District 2 Superintendent of Education, Bhojpur to accept her joining. However, during the pendency of the writ application, her appointment itself was fond to be illegal. She challenged the same. The learned Single Judge, on consideration of the materials, came to the following conclusion. “xxx This court on perusal of all these materials which can be found from different annexures to the writ application, therefore, is satisfied that the petitioner as a matter of fact was never appointed as a teacher in the prescribed manner. The petitioner does not claim to have been appointed after issuance of an advertisement, preparation of a panel duly approved by the Regional Deputy Director of Education and her alleged appointment on 4.12.1980 and yet remaining absent for more than 15 months and thereafter suddenly being allowed to join the post of a Teacher in the month of march, 1982 and again her transfer within a month from the district of Rohtas to the district of Bhojpur without there being any order of the competent authority namely the Director, Primary Education are by themselves sufficient to show that the petitioner had made a false and bogus claim of her being appointed in the district of Rohtas and continuing in service for some time till it was detected by the office of D.S.E., Bhojpur. The petitioner in this dubious design was supported by her father who was a Clerk in the office of the District Superintendent of Education, Bhojpur and therefore the entire story that she had at one time produced her original letter of appointment in the office of D.S.E, Bhojpur which was received by the Steno in the office D.S.E, Bhojpur gets self exposed. This Court accordingly cannot sustain such rank illegal appointment and cannot 3 allow the petitioner to be reinstated in service by quashing the order of the D.D.C. Bhojpur dated 8.8.2007 which would really amount to restoring an illegal and fraudulent appointment of the petitioner.” Xxx We do not find any error in the same. Appeal stands dismissed in limine. ahk (C. K. Prasad,ACJ) (Shyam Kishore Sharma)