IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14650 of 2005 RANA PRATAP SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the petitioner: M/S Arvind Saroj For the B.S.T.D.C.: Mr. Abimanyu Pratap For the State: M/S. Ram Chandra Prasad Bharti and Santosh Kumar Singh. --------- 03 28-07-2008 Petitioner filed the present writ application to pay his arrears of salary and annual increment etc. on the post of Manager in the light of the decision dated 3-2-2001. He also claims time bound promotion after completing 10 years of service. A detailed counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondents in which they have categorically asserted that the present writ application has been filed after suppressing many a facts and there is no relief to which petitioner is entitled to. Petitioner’s relief which he is claiming has already been extended to him in terms of a decision taken in the year 2004. From the averments made in the counter affidavit the petitioner has had a very chequered career and even his entry into service is not stated to be above board. If the petitioner has continued in service and reached a position which he has reached it is only because respondents have taken a lenient view of the matter at various stages. The assertion of his right for the above relief in view of the statements made is misplaced. If the punishment order passed against the petitioner is the reason for withholding his increment or non grant of higher pay scale then there is no occasion for this Court to undo the decision in that background. It is also clarified that claim for time bound promotion is - 2 - totally misplaced because time bound promotions were made available as per the decision of the 4th Pay Revision Committee, 1981 only for such class of persons who had no avenues of promotion in service. The writ application is dismissed as being devoid of any merit. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)