IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11840 of 2007 Mithilesh Pd. Singh, son of late Surju Singh, resident of Village Diawra, P.O. Budhuli, P.S. Pakribarawan, Dist. Nawadah. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Director, Primary Education, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Regional Deputy Director, Gaya (Bihar). 4. The District Superintendent of Education, Nawadah. --------- Respondents ----------- 2 03.11.2011 No one appears on behalf of the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present. From perusal of the writ application, it would be clear that after the petitioner had retired from service on 31.12.2004 he could remember only on 11.9.2007 that he was entitled for second time bound promotion and also some arrears towards difference of salary for the period 1.7.1972 to 31.3.1973. The fact that the petitioner was appointed on 1.7.1972 in a Government Middle School and that he had been given first time bound promotion is not in dispute. Thus, as per the Government decision dated 30.12.1981, the petitioner would be entitled for grant of second time bound promotion only on completion of twenty-five years of service which in his case could have 1.7.1997 but as the Government policy of grant of time bound 2 promotion for Teachers had stood withdrawn with effect from 1.1.1986, the petitioner could not have been granted second time bound promotion. As a matter of fact, the petitioner had retired from service on 31.12.2004 without moving any court of law for a cause of action which according to him also had accrued in the year 1997. This writ application, therefore, filed on 11.9.2007 for a cause of action of the year 1972-73 so far it relates to payment of arrear of salary and second time bound promotion with effect from the year 1997 must be held to be both wholly misconceived as also grossly over-delayed. That being so, this application is devoid of any merit the same is, accordingly, dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)