IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5230 of 2009 1. AJAY KUMAR Son of Ram Naresh Prasad, resident of Village Gowasha Shekhpura, PS Pandarak, District Patna 2. Baleshwar Kumar 3. Chandra Shekhar Kumar 4. Sanjeet Kumar Rao 5. Sunil Kumar Paswan 6. Sanjay Kumar Yadav 7. Amit Kumar Singh 8. Hira Lal Sah 9. Deep Narayan Sharma 10. Sanjeev Kumar 11. Awadh Prasad Kushwaha 12. Gulshan Kumar Singh 13. Dilip Kumar 14. Manish Kumar 15. Sanjay Yadav 16. Abhishek Kumar 17. Gunjan Kumar 18. Chandra Prakash Singh 19. Rajiv Kumar 20. Kapil Kumar Paswan 21. Bablu Kumar Mandal 22. Chandan Kumar 23. Om Prakash 24. Praveen Kumar andal 25. Varun Kumar 26. Binod Kumar 27. Pawan Kumar Pandit 28. Gorelal Sah 29. Ranjeet Kumar Singh 30. Kamlesh Kumar Singh 31. Deepak Kumar 32. Hari Nandan Kumar 33. Kamlesh Kumar 34. Anil Kumar 35. Rajesh Kunwar 36. Ranjeet Kumar Jha 37. Manish Kumar 38. Sanjay Kumar 39. Naresh Kumar 40. Rajeev Ranjan 41. Lal Babu Kumar 42. Lalan Prasad 43. Bisheshwar Singh 44. Mukesh Kumar Pankaj 45. Rakesh Kumar Ranjan 46. Vibhisan Kumar 47. Sanjay Kumar - 2 - 48. Mahesh Kumar 49. Satendra Kumar Goit 50. Birendra Kumar 51. Ramphal Prasad 52. Ranjeet Kumar 53. Ram Naresh Rai 54. Sanjeev Kumar Ram 55. Binod Kumar Singh 56. Vrijesh Kumar 57. Durg Vijai Paswan 58. Gajanand Prasad 59. Amod Kumar 60. Rajesh Kumar 61. Ramashish Prasad Yadav 62. Vikash Kumar 63. Kaushal Kumar 64. Chandra Shekhar Kumar 65. Sunil Kumar 66. Lakshmi Kumar 67. Rakesh Roshan 68. Pappu Kumar Mandal 69. Karan Kumar 70. Dharamvir Prasad 71. Surendra Paswan 72. Parvesh Kumar Mandal 73. Ram Shewak Sharma 74. Ranjeet Kumar 75. Shiwek Kumar …………… ………. Petitioners Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna 2. Home Commissioner, Bihar, Patna 3. Director General –cum- Inspector General of Police, Bihar, Patna 4. D I G, Human Rights, Bihar, Patna 5. I G, B M P, Bihar, Patna 6. S P, Munger, Munger 7. S P,Jamui, Jamui 8. S P Muzaffarpur, Muzaffarpur 9. S P Darbhanga, Darbhanga 10. S P Bhagalpur, Bhagalpur 11. S P Samastipur, Samastipur 12. S P Khagaria, Khagaria 13. S P Patna, Patna 14. S P Nawada, Nawada 15. S P Naugachia, Naugachia, Distt. Bhagalpur 16. S P Banka, Banka 17. S P Vaishali, Vaishali 18. S P Madhubani, Madhubani - 3 - 19. S P Motihari, Motihari 20. S P Seikhpura, Seikhpura 21. S P Lakhisarai, Lakhisarai 22. Commandant B M P, 11, Jamui 23. Commandant B M P 8, Begusarai 24. Commandant, B MP 20, Dumra, Buxar 25. Commandant B M P, Jamalpur, Munger 26. Chairman, Kendriya Chayan Parishad cum Police Mahanirikshak, BMP, Bihar, Patna …… Respondents ----------- 02- 24.4.2009 Heard Mr. Ebrahim Kabir for the petitioners, and Mr. Ritesh Kumar, learned Assistant Counsel to AAG I. The 75 petitioners have joined this writ petition seeking a direction to the respondent authorities to appoint them as Constables in the Bihar Police Force, in the circumstances indicated hereinbelow. 2. We have perused the materials on record and considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties. The respondent authorities had issued Advertisement No.1 of 2004, and Advertisement No.2 of 2004, for appointment of Constables in the Bihar Police Force. The petitioners were the candidates and claim to have found their way into the merit list, but appointment letters were not issued to them because of the limitation of number of vacancies. Persons above them were appointed. The respondent authorities have now issued Advertisement no.1 of 2009 and Advertisement no.2 of 2009 for further appointment of Constables in the Bihar Police Force. The petitioners seek a direction to the respondent authorities to appoint them on the strength of their higher position in the merit list. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a lenient and compassionate view is called for because they have now become over- age in so far as the present recruitment process is concerned. The - 4 - contention is stated only to the rejected. The selection process and the consequent appointments in pursuance of the advertisements of 2004, have finally closed. It is not possible to direct the respondent authorities even to consider the petitioners’ case in the present selection process after relaxing the age bar. 2. There is no merit in this writ petition. It is accordingly dismissed. ( S K Katriar ) mrl