IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9305 of 2010 1. PAWAN KUMAR PANDEY S/O LATE KAPILDEO PANDEY R/O VILL.- CHURAMANPUR, P.S.- BUXAR INDUSTRIAL AREA, DISTT.- BUXAR....Petitioner Versus 1. THE UNION OF INDIA THROUGH, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS, NEW DELHI 2. THE RAILWAY BOARD, THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN, GOVT. OF INDIA, NEW DELHI 3. THE CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICER, EASTERN RAILWAY, KOLKATA 4. THE DIVISIONAL RAILWAY MANAGER, EASTERN RAILWAY, DANAPUR 5. THE DIVISIONAL RAILWAY MANAGER, EASTERN RAILWAY, MUGHALSARAI 6. THE SENIOR DIVISIONAL PERSONNEL OFFICER, E.C.RAILWAY, MUGHALSARAI……………………………………………………Respondents ----------- For petitioner:- Sri Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Advocate For respondents:- Sri Sudhir Singh, Advocate ------------ 04. 13-07-2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the Railways. 1. Admittedly, father of the petitioner died while in service under the Railways in the year 1972. Even the impugned order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Patna Bench, Patna shows that it was passed about seven years earlier on 10.09.2003. That order discloses that it was second attempt of the petitioner to obtain relief from the Tribunal. The claim of the petitioner was rejected by the authorities particularly as being time barred. 3. Not only the writ petition had been filed after inordinate delay, we find it not at all a fit case for directing the authorities to consider the petitioner’s prayer for 2 compassionate appointment when the death of his father had taken place about 38 years earlier. This writ petition is dismissed. perwez (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Birendra Prasad Verma,J.)