IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4238 of 2006 LALAN SHARMA SON OF LATE CHANDRIKA SHARMA RESIDENT OF VILLAGE BELSAR, P.S. MEHANDIYA, DISTRICT ARWAL RETIRED FOREST GUARD, AURANGABAD RANGE, AURANGABAD. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE CHIEF CONSERVATOR OF FOREST, BIHAR, PATNA. 3. THE CONSERVATOR OF FOREST, PATNA CIRCLE, PATNA. 4. THE DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER CUM DEPUTY DIRECTOR, BALMIKI LION PROJECT DIVISION NO. 2, BALMIKINAGAR, 5. THE DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER, GAYA FOREST DIVISION, GAYA. 6. THE FOREST RANGE OFFICER, AURANGABAD. ----------- 2 29/10/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner retired way back in the year 1999. He filed the present writ application in 2006 in the background that for certain act of omission and commission a departmental proceeding was initiated and so was a criminal case. The departmental proceeding subsequently ended in exoneration in the year 1998. He was acquitted by the criminal court in 2004. His primary relief is for a direction upon the respondents to grant him time bound promotion from the year 1981. So called cause of action for grant of time bound promotion to the petitioner accrued sometime 30 years - 2 - ago. Even if it is argued that he had a claim at the relevant time, there were certain things against him which have been noted in the earlier part of the order. Merely because he came to be exonerated subsequently by two forums, one which is before the retirement and one after many years of retirement, claim of the petitioner for grant of time bound promotion does not revive at such a belated stage. More so, no such relief can be granted at this stage in view of the fact that he is no longer in service. The petitioner could have approached this Court when he was exonerated in the departmental proceeding in the year 1998 and he chose not to do so and he waited till 2006. This writ application has no merit. It is dismissed accordingly. AMIN/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)