IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.98 of 2011 Yogendra Kumar Pandey, son of Sri Ram Pravesh Pandey, resident of Mohalla – New Jakkanpur, P S – Jakkanpur, District – Patna, at present Posted as Typist Clerk in the office of Executive Engineer Planning and Monitoring Division, Water Resources Department, Anisabad, Patna -2 ……. Petitioner/ Appellant Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Secretary –cum- Commissioner, Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Irrigation Building, Harding Road, Bihar, Patna 2. The Secretary –cum- Commissioner, Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Irrigation Building, Harding Road, Bihar, Patna 3. The Engineer-in-Chief, Water Resources Department, Irrigation Building, Government of Bihar, Patna 4. The Under Secretary, Water Resources Department, Irrigation Building, Old Secretariat, Patna 5. The Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Anisabad, Irrigation, Government of Bihar, Patna 6. The Superintending Engineer, Design, Planning and Monitoring Circle at Anisabad, Patna 7. The Superintending Engineer, Advance Planning Investigation Circle, at present known as Gramin Vikash Vishes Anchal – 1, Harding Road, Sichai Barrak No 2, Patna 8. The Executive Engineer, Planning and Monitoring Division, Water Resources Department, Anishabad, Patna – 2. 9. Sri Gupteshwar Ojha, Chief Engineer (Mechanical), Water Resources Department, Old Secretariat, Patna … Respondents / Respondents ----------- 5 18.04.2011 Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned counsel for the State. 2 Writ petition bearing C.W.J.C. No. 10367/2006 has been rejected rather summarily by the order under appeal dated 30.11.2010 after noticing that through the writ petition of 2006 he was seeking to assail promotion granted to some later appointees from Class IV to Class III in August 1972. Learned counsel for the appellant took us to various orders passed in writ petitions or appeals preferred by him in order to offer an explanation for delay. On going through the orders we have noticed that his first writ petition bearing C.W.J.C. 2261/1988 was dismissed by a Division Bench of this Court on 13.4.1988. An observation was appended that the petitioner, if so advised, may move the Tribunal. We have been informed that a case bearing No. 186 of 1988 remained pending before the State Industrial Tribunal without any result and the Tribunal got discontinued. Next writ petition bearing C.W.J.C. No. 2093 of 1992 was disposed of on 22.1.1993 with a direction to the departmental authority to dispose of petitioner’s grievances by a reasoned order. Against the reasoned 3 order, it appears that the petitioner preferred C.W.J.C. No. 10239/1992, which was dismissed on 14.7.1995. The appellant preferred L.P.A. No. 871 of 1995 before a Division Bench but the same was dismissed for default on 5.8.1996 by order which is Annexure 17 to the writ petition. The prayer for restoration was also rejected by order dated 4.8.1997, which is Annexure 18 of the writ petition. Thereafter, petitioner preferred C.W.J.C. No. 12140 of 1999, which was disposed of on 2.2.2005 by Annexure 21 to the writ petition. That order did not notice the earlier rejection and the various orders noticed above by us. The order dated 2.2.2005 passed by a learned Single Judge discloses that after some argument the petitioner sought permission to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to approach the departmental authorities. Armed with such observation, again the appellant preferred C.W.J.C. No. 10367 of 2006, which has been dismissed by the order under appeal. We are of the considered view that petitioner cannot get any relief at this belated stage and particularly when his earlier writ petition was rejected 4 on merits and he failed to get that order reversed and the appeal was dismissed. In view of the facts noticed above, we have no option but to dismiss this appeal. It is dismissed accordingly. Spd/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) ( Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J.)