WP(C) 2488/2011 BEFORE THE HON BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY The petitioner, who is serving as a teacher of Borjuri R.K.S. High School, Nagao n District, challenges the order dated 18.5.07 of the Director of Secondary Educ ation (Annexure-P/4), whereby the respondent No., 4 was posted as In-charge Head mistress of the school by considering her to be the seniormost teacher. Mr. M. Phukan, learned counsel contends that the respondent No.4 does not have t he B.Ed qualification and therefore is ineligible to be a regular Headmistress u nder Rule 14(4)(i) of the Assam Secondary Education (Provincialised) Services Ru les, 2003 hereinafter referred to as the Rules ) and therefore, she should not have been posted as In-charge Headmistress. But, I find that the respondent No.4 was posted as In-charge Headmistress in the Borjuri R.K.S. High School nearly 2 years earlier and yet the petitioner did no t consider it necessary to challenge the said order at that time. Mr. Phukan, learned counsel submits that as the petitioner was unaware of the pr ovisions of Rule 14 (4) (i) of the Rules, he did not challenge the order at the appropriate time. Considering that two years have gone by and the petitioner was serving in the sa me school where the respondent No.4 was appointed by the impugned order as the I n-charge Headmistress, I am of the view that this petition should not be accepte d and should be dismissed on the ground of laches. It is ordered accordingly.