IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10672 of 2006 Parma Nand Pd. Singh, Son of Sri Damodar Prasad Singh, Resident of Village/Mohalla Nagwan, P.S. Kinjore, District Jehanabad. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Director-in-chief, Health Services, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Dy. Director, Health Services, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 4. The Head of the Department, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Patna Medical College & Hospital, Patna. -------- Respondents ----------- 2 26.08.2010 No one appears on behalf of the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present. The following prayer of the petitioner in this writ application:- “1(A) Issuance of a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, commanding the respondents to appoint /selection this petitioner on one of the 4 posts of Occupational Therapist which were advertised by them in the year 1997 in pursuance of which interview was held on 28.1.98 by a committee constituted for the purpose and this petitioner occupied in the merit list. (B) Issuance of appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the respondent to declare the total number of post of Occupational Therapist lying vacant under them uptill now.” has now stood answered from the order of the 2 authority dated 28.11.2005, wherein, it has been found that after cancellation of the earlier appointment of Occupational Therapists, an exercise was taken in view of the advertisement in the year 1997 that no fresh step for appointment would be taken because now such power of selection and appointment had been vested in the Karamchari Chayan Aayog as is also clear from the letter of the State Government dated 2nd April, 2003. In that view of the matter, the order passed by the competent authority for requisition of the vacant post of Occupational Therapists for sending the same to the Karamchari Chayan Aayog can also not be taken to be bad in any respect. In any event, the petitioner now cannot claim appointment on the basis of an advertisement of the year 1997. That being so, this application has become infructuous and the same is dismissed accordingly. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)